From the NY Times, RFK’s kids remember him:
Kerry Kennedy
But most of all, he believed it imperative to question authority, and those who failed that lesson did so at their peril.
Joseph P. Kennedy II
Robert Kennedy had a wonderful way of allowing others to tell him how the world looked through their eyes.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
The long table was set with linen, silver and crystal. Painted portraits of my brothers and sisters hung on the walls. And suddenly, my father entered. He looked haunted and started talking to me, shaking his head in distress as he described the people he’d met in the Delta. “I was with a family who live in a shack the size of this dining room,” he told me.
And yeah, I know: ANYBODY’s kids tend to look at their parents in a manner that’s biased, one way or another. And yeah, I know: children of privilege, easy for them to say, etc. etc.
But there was no one like him. I bet his kids would have had these kinds of memories no matter what station in life he and they had been born to (or how he exited).
(Also from the Times, here’s the obituary (1.2MB PDF).)
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