The viewing of the Kennedy fiasco on Bay of Pig leads to the distrust of the president of CIA and military intelligent agency. This is the same crap all over again during the Iraq invasion of the Bush Administration. The forming of a new agency to oversee all branch of intelligent gathering agency of government is a testimony of the problem of reliable intelligence gathering is still unsolved.
This is an incident of history repeats itself. Who not learns from history will be taught a lesson by history is a commonly known statement.
The leaving a certain perspective behind is a good description of one no longer endorses a certain perspective of the past. The Robert F. Kennedy transformation from a fat cat interest supporter to a liberal politician that cares about the interest of the poor and working class is one example of it. Mainstream media has no interest of this kind of change of mind set of politician. However, there are many such as example in the field of US Supreme Court.
JFK has no intention to side with the interest of the working class and the disadvantages. It is the tradition of the upper class to protect their interests and the interest of the business class. His father is a symbol of this privilege class.
The story clearly does not reflect this transformation. However, the narrator implies that he should act as his father. Like father like son is the premise of this thinking. What the story reveals contradicting to expectation of a person with such family background. He changes the mind set of JFK on the Cuban policy namely bully the Cuban regime any time the president and the military want it. He was even ordered by JFK to undermine the Cuban regime and assassinate the Cuban leader. But this never put into place as event unfold.
He is the one suggests that JFK should accept the fact that there is no need to initiate a nuclear holocaust simply because ones attitude toward a small socialist country on the southern coast of USA.
RFK also convince JFK to support the civil right bill and put it through US congress for a vote. This may upset the Dixiecrats of the south but it is good for the unity of the nation in term of race relation. These are histories by now. But they are never mentioned again in high school and elementary text book about history of US and sociology at all.
All people want to talk about is the assassination of JFK and RFK for unknown reason. They refuse to deconstruct the social and political atmosphere at the time.
RFK is a very pragmatic and realistic person. He actually runs the campaign of JFK that helps him win the presidency. He is also very effective in running his own campaign for the president job after the assassination of JFK. He is winning from behind as an underdog.
Play boy or not, he is a very adaptive person and he can get thing done as required. But he lacks the political acument required by politicians that often have to compremise their own position as a way for horse trading or quid pro quo.
He hates LBJ as vice president of the administration. This is so ludicrous that such as characters could be coexist in the same administration. There are many factions within the Democratic party vying for the top job of the executive branch.
The power of his father is mentioned again and again during the documentary. He is having his way by offering money to get thing done according to his wish.
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