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Backed. >> he was quite resolute that he wasn't going to run. but it became quite clear we couldn't go through another four years of the johnson presidency. >> part of him said you don't undertake something unless you think you can win. part of him said you have to do what's right. >> while bobby anguished, another anti-war candidate stepped up, minnesota senator eugene mccarthy. in march 1968, mccarthy, a virtual unknown, proved johnson's clear vulnerability, losing the new hampshire primary to the president by a handful of votes. a few days later, bobby was in, announcing in the same senate ...

You let mccarthy pave the way and followed in his wake. even if it was ill-timed, an inopportune time to do it, but he did it. so he was off and running. >> robert kennedy's passionate 1968 campaign had little in common with the well-oiled kennedy campaign machine that made jack president eight years earlier. the bobby kennedy campaign, what was different about that from what you remember and knew about the jack kennedy campaign? >> well, it was a lot less organized. as you know, my father was very ambivalent whether to run. it was put together more in a haphazard way. it was his spirit that g...

He was a lonely kid who all his life, especially in his youth, was all alone out there reading books of heroes. he was always sick. i think he had 9 record at choate for the most times in the infirmary. it was always like that, going to chelsea hospital or boston baptist, away for the longest time, sick and alone, reading history, becoming a love of history. he's 14 years old and read church hill's history of world war i. he read "new york times" every day at school. he got it by mail, i guess. he was a self-made guy. >> what a great quote when jackie said history made jack, because he was so ...

He's thinking he's dying and no one comes to see him, and jackie had that right. some of that is mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, but jackie said he was a lonely kid who all hisl his life, eye specially in his youth, was reading books about heroes. i think he had the record at most times in the infirmry. he was always going off to chelsea hospital or boston baptist, sick and alone, reading histo history, and becoming a love of history, first king arthur, then winston churchhill. he read "new york times" every day in school. he got it by mail, i guess, and analyzed article after article. he wa...