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One of the most striking things about RFK: In His Own Words is how often Kennedy misspeaks. His speeches may look like sermons when written down, but when he actually opens his mouth, he's just as liable to stumble, stutter, or rephrase a sentence as you or I. Well, maybe not that often, but certainly more often than your average Presidential candidate today has a slip of the tongue. And his voice isn't terribly poetic, or at least, it didn't sound poetic to my ears, which may just be a function of the generational gap. Instead, it's Ted Kennedy's euology that sounds much more eloquent:
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world.
As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:
"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not."
Regardless, it's still a fantastic collection of speeches, and if anything it serves to further humanize one of the most compassionate voices in American politics.
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