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.
fell in love with him. together for nearly 76 years. married for 73. i mean, really laura: remarkable. really remarkable. hard to match that. laura: newt gingrich. one of the great things about her is her she didn t have a lot of pretense. when she was commenting about becoming the vice president s wife she said a lot of fat, white haired ladies are thinkic pink. that is so refreshing today again. i use the word refreshing but i love it. at one point she described herself as the nation s grandmother and that sort of captured it. at that point she had 25 point higher approval rating than her husband. what a remarkable couple, and
and being at home had to be an amazing thing for that expanded family. she was always someone who connected, especially women connected with barbara bush. when she came into the white house in 1989, she openly joked about the contrast with her thinner predecessor, nancy reagan and more fashionable, she would say saying my male tells me that a lot of the fat white haired wrinkled tickled pink she had that weighed about her that was exuded, the sunshine wherever she went. i last talked to her about a year ago up in maine and she was just the matriarch and everybody flocked to her. martha: it s such a special story, her hair turned gray when she was a young woman when she lost her daughter, robin and she never colored it, she left it that way. almost as a memory tribute perhaps to her child and she was
kennedy return ed here today. bobby kennedy is a poor candidate. his voice is weak. he speaks in a monotone. that s my first. he s stumbling for his words. he s not buttoned up and 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 back slapping. he was running against the 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 fitted to be be.
environment, our producers spotted an older, white-haired man serenely walking the tier, showing no father for his safety. what s new? you doing all right? how you doing? good. holy cross priest from south bend, indiana, notre dame. come out here just sort of talk to the men, if any of them want to talk to me. some are catholic, some are not. i m retired. i m delighted to do it. even though 79-year-old father thomas mcnally is required by the prison to wear a stab resistant vest, the thought of being attacked doesn t come across his mind. i never felt any kind of fear or tension with the men. when i was little kid, i d be riding my bicycle, i would go by and see her. i love you, erica. i love you, erica. they know i m a pretty harmless guy.