[cheers] jesse: kennedy was unstoppable and that s why they shot him. and then his brother stepped in. the united states over the period of the last three years, the division, the violence, the disenchantment with our society. the division whether blacks and whites, the poor and the more affluent or between troops or war in vietnam that we can start to work together. we are a great country and a compassionate country. and i intend to make that my basis for running. bobby kennedy was steam rolling his way to winning the democratic nomination for president back in 68. he was about to win the california primary. take onyx son and the war in vietnam, smoke out his brother s assassins and then they took him out. the other brother, teddy was going to make a run in 72. but, in 69 he was behind the wheel during a deadly car crash. it has been almost 20 years since ted kennedy appeared on television to discuss the death of mary jo. even he called his behavior afterward indefens
international decline, with the nation adrift, buffeted by events, tossed like a cork on uncertain and stormy seas. jesse: ted kennedy did something nobody thought he would do primaried his own party s president. why? well, carter was an easy target. , hostages. carter felt the threat and ducked the debate with kennedy. we are facing the fact that mr. carter will not come out of that white house or the rose garden but we are going to get him out of that white house and the rose garden. oh how i would like to have jimmy carter here this afternoon. right up here. and we would have a chance to talk about some of the things which are important i would have liked to have asked him where are the rest of our allies. ducking kennedy worked. he piled up some delegates but not enough and carter cruised into the convention with about twice as many but carter was wounded. and when he faced reagan in the