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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (12877)	2/21/2006 8:52:51 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541582

If what you say is true... aide to Joe McCarthy I did not know that. And would be very disappointed.. I also thought it was J.Edgar who did the wire tapping and did not think Bobby was involved. J.Edgar was an entity unto himself. He did whatever he wanted and was unscrupulous... Can you link me to Bobby's being involved in the wire tapping.. There are always things to learn. I got a lot from JohnM's latest posts:Pillar and Fukuyama.... Thanks,

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (12877)	2/21/2006 9:48:07 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541582

You sure about that? Bobby was an aide to Joe McCarthy and later on wiretapped Martin Luther King. That your kind of Democrat? Granted, those were not memorable moments in the Bobby Kennedy legacy. But his dad got him the position with McCarthy. And, much to his credit, he grew wary of McCarthy and finally simply resigned. On the wiretapping of MLK, he, of course, did no such thing. Hoover did that. Read the Taylor Branch biographies. He was, however, his brother's Attorney General, and waged an ongoing conflict with Hoover over such. It's hard to tell whether Hoover got his way on this one because he had such dirt on JFK; because he effectively convinced Bobby that MLK was a tool of Stanley Levison, whom Hoover considered a Communist tool; or because Bobby believed that MLK was a threat. It's extremely clear that by his run for the presidency, he was a very different person, concerned about very different issues, out of the shadow of his much, much more conservative father.