--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], bbrigante <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > Of course, Dixon's comments about Ted Kennedy were irrelevant, but > > the point is that Robert Kennedy did do multiple approvals of the > > wiretaps. > > As far as Robert Kennedy's character supposedly making him only a > > reluctant supporter of the wiretap campaign against King, he was a > > mutt who loved Sen McCarthy's witchhunt and worked for that lowlife > > alongside the execrable Roy Cohn. Kennedy defended both his work > > for McCarthy and McCarthy himself long after even middle of the > > road Americans were totally disgusted with both: > > That was in 1955, and it doesn't necessarily negate > reluctance on his part to wiretap King. > > In any case, most people who have been paying attention > are aware that Bobby Kennedy went through a major > transformation after JFK was killed.
You mean like the transformation George Wallace undertook after he was governor for several terms and ended up garnering more than 90% of the African-American vote? Will you also acknowledge Wallace as transformed, too, and that he turned into a good Democrat, too? > > The poem by Aeschylus he quoted when he addressed > the campaign crowds in Indianapolis to announce MLK's > assassination-- > > "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget > falls drop by drop upon the heart, > until, in our own despair, > against our will, > comes wisdom > through the awful grace of God." > > --evidently was an emblem, to him, of his change > of heart (and perhaps even a tacit expression of > regret for not having treated King properly). > > > > > > > > > http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/progjfk2.htm > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
