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74. A friend of mine, a politician from upstate NY, his father knew both RFK and JFK

and he hated RFK before about '65 or '66. He loved JFK, bu he thought RFK was a whining, ego-centric, who was politically short-sighted and had a chip on his shoulder. He said that RFK didn't change until a couple years after his brother died. He said that was the first time RFK began to think about people other than himself.

I believe that that is true because I've heard that same characterization of RFK from other sources, including the PBS documentary about RFK that came out in '04 and in a book about RFK that came out in '03 by someone who also knew both brothers.

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