#kennedy

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do? ↗

— George Smathers

#anyway #between #caught #dear #dear friend

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon. ↗

— George Smathers

#fun #going #had #kennedy #lot

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot. ↗

— George Smathers

#came #had #heard #just #kennedy

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#endorsement #inspiration #kennedy #politics #voting

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#before #bob #brother #candidate #contributions

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#failure #felt #frustrated #i #i think