annoyed by him. he said that bobby was a pain in the ass. >> my father and john kennedy were not very close as they were growing up because there was a big gap in age between them. >> he was considered as the runt of the family. he was unathletic in a very athletic family. >> and what that did with bobby is it gave him the determination to prove to his dad that he mattered, that he could do these difficult tasks that joe threw his way and the most difficult of all at this point was making his brother a u.s. senator. >> bobby rises to his father's challenge and takes on a new role as the kennedy family fixer. >> bobby finds the campaign in a shambles, all these old hacks sitting around. and bobby tells the hacks to get out or shape up, to stop loafing, to get out and knock on some doors.