and that is that it s a salve, yes, but it also is a touchstone, a reminder of this man, what he represented, and his times. i think the statement you can make about robert kennedy is objective. you can look at the people along the train tracks from new york where he was carried from st. patrick s cathedral from his funeral down to washington to join his brother at arlington cemetery. the people along those tracks are his greatest testament, a couple of million people. african-americans in philly, 30th street station which you know so well, 20,000 people singing together spontaneously the battle hymn of the republic. and all those poor whites along the tracks between the big cities. this kind of affectionate patriotism, a couple cops you ll see in this picture saluting him, these working class guys having their kids join them, a whole family doing that. that affectionate patriotism across ethnic lines, if you will. i don t like the word race. we re all the same race.