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General Robert Kennedy or some of the other staff members?
Y:
I would say they were sort of lumped together. You sort of thought of them as the clique
or the clan, the Eastern Establishment. I guess the more unkind characterizations have
been the Mafia
- of the
preliminary work that had been done in the Kennedy Administration
that I thought possibly the President wasn't familiar with.
The pbverty program very essentially started out by having
Robert Kennedy chair an administrative committee of cabinet
or sub-cabinet
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the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that
trip.
It
was a great trip. and it did a lot of good.
I honestly
believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally.
I don't think [he.made