JFK [
John F. Kennedy] attacked conditions because they seemed irrational, RFK [
Robert F. Kennedy] because they seemed hateful . . . If JFK saw people living in squalor, it seemed to him totally unreasonable and awful, but he saw it all, as FDR [
Franklin D. Roosevelt] would have done, from the outside. RFK had an astonishing capacity to identify himself with the casualties and victims of our society.