European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 6 the stars and stripes thursday june 6 sometimes ruthless9 but always Tough Robert f. Kennedy a Man who had to win from a and up dispatches he wears his hair Long and turns on the teeny toppers. Heis a Middle aged millionaire and the father of 10 children. He plays touch football an Power politics both to win. He holds an invaluable political inheritance but has won Only one election. And now he is running for president. When Robert Francis Kenned joined the race it surprised Nei ther Friend nor enemy exception the rather important element of timing. He was expected to wait until 1972. But from the time that Ken Nedy came out of the deep de pression that possessed him after the death of his brother everyone anticipated that he would someday seek to be the second of his family to occupy the White House. Own rules the Junior senator from Newyork even in comparison to John f. Kennedy is a politician of such innovative style As to confound All the old rules about the successful Pursuit of Public office. Though 42, he defies the tradition that a candidate should at his age plus 20 years. Exuding youth he is the Only Man so far who could seriously approach the presidency universally recognized by such a child Hood diminutive As  Kennedy made no pretence of starting at the Bottom in poli tics. His first request for votes Only four years ago was to be sent to the Senate the traditional Sanctum of the select in Ameri can  though Massachusetts born and a resident of Virginia Home in Virginia Given police Protection Mclean a. At sen. Robert f. Kennedy s Mclean Home in suburban Washington police quickly put a protective cordon around the quiet sprawling House As newsmen and photographers began together after news of his shoot ing in los  county police lieu tenant Charles Norfolk said those in the House whom he could not identify were shaken and asked that no one be permitted on the premises. For years he made his debut inner York a state he could claim As Home Only by virtue of thereat wealth that makes the acquisition of a House anywhere Small matter. No windbag lie is no speaker either of the eloquent or windbag style and when he grins some say it re Calls bugs Bunny. He is Only of Middle height and looks some what underfed. But he can draw a crowd wherever he goes whether to ski with his family on a private vacation or to appear at a formal occasion for the most serious speech making. If he does not have the Grace of his dead brother he has a vitality that no one in contemporary politics can match. If he lacks a Long experience of Previ Ous campaigning it seems to make no difference for in his first bid he Defeated one of the cannies and Best liked new Yor republicans Kenneth Keating. That he is a potential vote get Ter seems to be attested by a simple fact when sen. Eugene Mccarthy decided to run party professionals regarded it As nuisance. When Kennedy announced the cries were louder and More agonized and spoke of splitting the party beyond re pair. The observation has Bee made that he is More like his father than any other of Josephp. Kennedy s four sons. This is not an altogether kindly com ment for it frequently comes from those who recall that theelder Kennedy had a firmly established reputation As a boots and spurs operator in the Busi Ness world who formed grudge easily and let them die hard. There is Little doubt that Bob by Kennedy is a Tough Man. As counsel for the Senate Racket committee and As attorney Gen eral he set out to put teamster president James r. Hoffa in jail. Hoffa went to prison after Kennedy became a senator but it was the machinery that Bobby turned on that put him there. He does not get along with pres ident Johnson and that is not just a matter of disagreement Over the Fine Points of National policy. They clashed at the moment when Johnson was adjust ing his own Gunpowder tempera ment to accepting second place on the 1960 ticket and their relationship since has never been More than polite. Does t lose head but if Kennedy has a temper he does not lose his head. He did not want to run against John son this year because the presi Dent held All the Good  seems More Likely that Ken Nedy saw his carefully nourished base of strength among the party s liberals and the Youn slipping away toward Mccarthy. And on that however Unready Kennedy had to act. It has been said that the nine children of Joseph p. Kennedy always had everything that he could afford and he could afford everything. But the children especially the four boys also were Given something that can be produced by far poorer families a distaste for slackness incompetence and defeat. The pressure to be first passe to Robert Kennedy by tragic inheritance. First his eldest brother Joseph jr., was killed in world War ii. Then John who had made it to the top in poli tics with the strenuous help of the other Kennedy was Mur dered. Bobby by this time seemed relegated to the role of adviser. He ran John s 1960 Campai Gnand was his closest confidante on the Tough decisions up to the assassination. On brother s committee before that barely out of la school he had served As a Law yer on his brother s Senate com Mittee. He took a bigger role than John in the rackets com Mittee investigations but remained As his brother s Man atall times. Robert s Strong criticism . Policy in Vietnam and his battling for More social welfare programs and Money have secured a Liberal base. That an the magic of the name were to be the motive forces of a Shotat the top four years hence. But now the plan has been disrupted. It May be that Rob Ert Kennedy was talking to him self when he said on the first earlier tragedy sen. Robert Kennedy left joined mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and his brother sen. Edward Kennedy in heading the funeral procession for assassinated president John f. Kennedy in Washington on nov. 25, 1963. A photo anniversary of his brother s assassination if there is anything to regained. By the life and death of president Kennedy it s the fact that we must  some of the Juk magic has rubbed off on Bobby in the Opin Ion of observers. When he walks Down a Cit Street even on the darkest night passersby recognize him an maybe ask for his autograph. In the sedate Senate when hearses to speak Young ladies in the galleries stifle their impulse to scream and old ladies in the Back rows stand up and peer. When he is in a crowd his bodyguard pushes ahead to absorb the blows of the  Kennedy climbs on the rear of a convertible his body guard clutches him from being dragged off. The excitement follows him when he travels abroad As Well As in his Homeland. Jack Kennedy appeared relaxed Cool amused in situations that others would find embarrassing. Often Robert Kennedy seems awkward ill at ease. He lacks those conversational titbits on which most politicians  often in a crowd he Sim ply nods or Waves his hand. But anyone who travels wit him is surprised to learn that if he has t mastered urbanity he has developed a style of his own. On his recent primary election campaigning however he has come around to cracking joke about his hair styling his Pater Nal fecundity and the wealth of his family. He has always loved Contro Versy and this was apparent in his Law school Days at the University of Virginia. It pushed him before the footlights on the old Mccarthy committee and made him with the help of labor Leader Jimmy Hoffa a Star of daytime television and the Senate Racket inquiry. As attorney general in his brother s Cabinet he led the Van guard of those protecting civil rights in the South culminating in the role of the Justice department in permitting a negro James Meredith to enter the historically segregated univer sity of Mississippi. As attorney general he Servidas one of the closest advisers of his brother in Many of the crises such As the cuban mis Sile controversy facing the Juk  called ruthless Ken Nedy 5-foot-7, 150 pounds inevitably Rose out of Kennedy family obscurity by looking racketeers in the Eye and calling them sissies. He was born in brookline.jmass., on nov. 20, 1925, the Sev i tenth child of Joseph p. And Ros Kennedy. He quit High school in his senior year to enlist in Nej  of service he went to har Vard served As a correspondent abroad for Boston newspapers and returned to take a Law de Gree from the University of Vir Ginia. He married the former Ethe Skakel in 1950. Like Bobby so family she comes from a family of great wealth. The. Kennedy and their 10 children live atm lean a. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa it. Col. If. S. Michael jr., a Saumert Procto Relmer d. Frank Henry 8. Epstein an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed force., pub in Arta commander in chief . European command and printed daily. No mail Germany. Military address the stare and stripes Apo 09175. In so 0 up Mana production Mana circulation Man a a Nitu  Ethe stare and Stripe Post fact 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. The.  prefix c6166 2071 m Darmstadt Airstrip prefix 2376 741. Telex � York office 641 Washington 8t, new York 10014, Tel area code advert second class postage paid at new York . 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