My center right conservative audience loved both because of the passion and knowledge of both authors. I begin with hardball Chris Matthews and with this poster. Take a look at that, america. That was on my wall when i was a 12yearold. The first guy i loved in politics was bobby kennedy. This book touched me in a way that a lot of biographies dont. I think there is a little bit of memoir, a little bit of Chris Matthews but a lot of spirit and love for Robert Kennedy. I dont think conservatives and moderates would be opposed to him today. You take a tough issue like black lives versus police. He would say, no, im not going to take sides on that. I think law and order should be just. We will feet mob sisters, street criminals. We will be on the side of the people who live in those neighborhoods. I think it would be a positive view today. He wouldnt some elite liberal Walking Around with his nose in the air. As jack newfeld said, his people were the waitresses. Black and white. They were
bobby can t get in because his dad won t let him. bobby, said, no, i m joining the navy. a ship was named after joe jr. he went down and said i m aboard. he didn t ask for his father s permission. he wanted to be regular. the second one, they re going to love this book if they love politics. 1960, jack gets the nomination. ends up picking johnson. you detail all that. i never knew he wanted scoop jackson. honest to goodness, if they had jackson, washington state went for nixon. i looked it up after we talked to each other. but they would have lost the south. i understand why you love scoop. the fact is jack was ruthless in the best sense of the political world. i need texas, georgia. and he got the states pretty big in those days. bobby of course believed in
walking around with his nose in the air. as jack newfeld said, his people were the waitresses. black and white. they were the construction workers, cops, and firefighters. he didn t take a suburbanite elite view of people. i try to focus on things i did not know before i read the book. we talked a lot on the radio about joe is, sr. i think he s the biggest horse s ass. rose kennedy got her sons to compete. she would wear army air force medals and make jack feel he had to get the tie clip made into a brooch. the whole thing got dramatic in terms of militaryism. he was the hero of the south pacific after saving his pt