>> bobby kennedy is a poor candidate. his voice is reedy and weak. >> let me -- just let me say that's my -- >> he speaks in a monotone. >> that's my first -- >> he's stumbling for his words. he's not buttoned up. he's not polished. >> that's my first speech as a candidate. >> he's a terrible candidate. >> he was shy. he didn't like small talk. he didn't do backslapping. >> he was running against a guy named kenneth keating, an older, white-haired veteran so-called liberal republican. >> taking a page out of jack's campaign book, bobby brings in his mother rose. >> i know you have come to hear about bob and why i think he's eminently fitted to be a united states senator. >> they put his mother on television, i remember.