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That will take a little time, i think. >> jack's brother, robert, and wife, ethel, joined in the family's triumph. bobby had been jack's campaign manager, and their father is adamant he's handed an important role in the new administration. >> joe kennedy let jack choose his cabinet with one exception. joe insisted that the next attorney general be robert kennedy. >> one cold december morning the president gets bobby kennedy up in his house in georgetown and tells him he is going to be appointing him as attorney general, and he says, bobby, grab your balls. let's go. >> jfk stops at the door an...

And when you investigated them, who would you run into? you would run into an elected official. >> this is robert pierpoint, and that building across the street is the u.s. department of justice. >> since the 1950s, bobby has been rooting out corruption in the mob-infiltrated labor unions. >> the attorney general seldom leaves the office before 8:00 at night. >> as attorney general, he's determined to wage the biggest war on the mafia in american history. >> we need now more than talk. we need action. >> bobby kennedy had the single adjective stick with him more than anything else and it was t...

Dictatorship based on race. >> we're still seeing intense violence. lynching is still the reality. >> if you were black, you couldn't vote. you couldn't buy property. you couldn't go certain places. >> i said i'm sorry, our management does not allow us to serve niggers in here. >> while jfk is looking at the moon and stars, you see real hypocrisy and contradiction. >> how can the united states be a democracy if its citizens are killing, are hurting, are hospitalizing its other citizens? >> but in the spring of 1961, john f. kennedy and his brother, robert, didn't care that much about civil rig...

Were politically connected and when you investigated them, who would you run into? you'd run into an elected official. >> this is robert pierpoint and that building across the street there is the u.s. department of justice. >> since the 1950s, bobby has been rooting out corruption in the mob-infiltrated labor unions. >> the attorney general seldom leaves the office before 8:00 at night. >> as attorney general, he's determined to wage the biggest war on the mafia in american history. >> we need now more than talk, we need action. >> bobby kennedy had the single adjective stick with him more tha...

>> this is robert pierpoint, and that building across the street is the u.s. department of justice. >> since the 1950s, bobby has been rooting out corruption in the mob-infiltrated labor unions. >> the attorney general seldom leaves the office before 8:00 at night. >> as attorney general, he's determined to wage the biggest war on the mafia in american history. >> we need now more than talk. we need action. >> bobby kennedy had the single adjective stick with him more than anything else and it was the word "ruthless." and bobby learned, to joe's great delight, how to be a tough guy from papa j...