Voice of the Day: Robert F. Kennedy
Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence. ... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of our generation.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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Kennedy and his mentor Joe McCarthy certainly accomplished much. As attorney general, his major accompishment was an expansion of Wilson's Sedition Act. Under Kennedy's law, Bill Clinton could have been imprisoned for protesting in England against the war.
Fortunately for Kennedy, the "history of his generation" is hagiography so he's a hero of civil rights even though he castigated the vice president for his open support of the Movement, and he's a hero of peace even though he rejected a negotiated exit and implicitly relied upon "Vietnamization."
Which goes to show that, for politicians and their groupies, the only accomplishment that counts is elecion: the rest can be filled in later.>
Posted by: Cornet Joyce | December 27, 2006 10:32 PM
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