big news out for the democratic leadership in congress. its selection of robert kennedy s grandson for the party s state of the union response shows the democrats are willing to touch base with their gloried past. the wide progressive unity that brought magic to the new frontier politics of the 1960s and invoking the name and the blood of the kennedy family itself. railroad tracks in june of 1968 when he was carried to arlington. no one forgets the faces of african-americans singing the battle hymn of the republic.