Remembering Robert Kennedy
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Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was initially reluctant to run for president against the incumbent, Lyndon Johnson. But after Eugene McCarthy's near victory in New Hampshire, Kennedy jumped into the race to the disappointment of McCarthy.
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