it has been a series of firings at top officials there. each one of them, the president each one of them have had something to do with this investigation and the president s unhappiness. even sessions was unhappy because he recused himself from the russia probe. they all come back to the president s idea of what the law enforcement agency should be doing. he believes it should be protecting him. he believes it should be his personal lawyer, he gave an interview for a bob by kenned kennedy that s not their job. it is reflective of how he views the fbi and the justice department and led to a series of these. is this just a saturday night mi massacre halving in slow motion so it does not seem as jarring
that report had it impact the scandal he hoped america would forget was back on the front page. this will be the albatross that is one of the main reasons in 76 he does not run for president. it is too soon after the event and he realizes that so he leaves it open to this former peanut farmer to take the presidency. the fact that jimmy carter won that year really angered kenned kennedy. so he sees that. i had a missed opportunity -looks great, honey. -right?
and rose. have you had a chance really to sit back and realize. no, no, that will take a little while, i think. jack s brother robert and wife ethel joined in the family s triumph. bobby had been jack s campaign manager and their father is adamant he s handed an important role in the new administration. joe kennedy let jack choose his cabinet with one exception. joe insisted that the next attorney general be robert kenned kennedy. one cold december morning the president gets bobby kennedy up in his house in georgetown and tells him he is going to be appointing him as attorney general and he says bobby, grab your balls, let s go. jfk stops at the door and says, hey, comb your hair.
this is robert pierpoint and that building across the street is the u.s. department of justice. since the 1950s, bobby has been rooting out corruption in the mob-infiltrated labor unions. the attorney general seldom leaves the office before 8:00 at night. as attorney general, he s determined to wage the biggest war on the mafia in american history. we need now more than talk, we need action. bobby kennedy had the single adjective stick with him more than anything else and it was the word rouuthless and bobby learned, to joe s great delight, how to be a tough guy like papa joe. we ve heard your father foster add spirit of competition in the family. i think so. as we were growing up i think in any family where there s a lot of children you re always fighting with one another, competing with one another. joe believes making such
stunning at the time, barely a peep of objection. the press went completely along with it. bobby didn t want to be attorney general. jack didn t want his brother to be attorney general. nobody thought it was a good idea. but joe insisted. joe knew that jack, newcomer to the presidency, needed someone to watch his back, someone to protect him. he knew that the responsibilities that were now going to be put on his son s shoulders were absolutely enormous. you can t judge a woman looking at her man. you can t judge a daughter by looking at the mother. you can t judge a book by looking at the cover. taking one look. try to read me like a book but i leave em all shook cuz you judge a book by its cover.