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All This Marvelous Potential

Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia

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All This Marvelous Potential

By: Matthew Algeo
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In the winter of 1967-68, Robert F. Kennedy, then a US senator from New York, ventured deep into the heart of Appalachia. As acting chairman of a Senate subcommittee on poverty, RFK went to eastern Kentucky to gauge the progress of the War on Poverty. He was deeply disillusioned by what he found. Kennedy learned that job training programs were useless, welfare programs proved insufficient, and jobs were scarce and getting scarcer. Before he'd even left the state, Kennedy had determined the War on Poverty was a failure - and he blamed Lyndon Johnson.

Robert Kennedy wasn't merely on a fact-finding mission, however; he was considering challenging Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he needed support from white voters to win it. His trip to eastern Kentucky was an opportunity to test his antiwar and antipoverty message with hardscrabble whites. Kennedy encountered deep resentment in the mountains, and a special disdain for establishment politicians. A month after his visit, RFK officially announced he was challenging Johnson for the Democratic nomination. Four months after his visit, he was murdered. He was 42.

All This Marvelous Potential retraces RFK's tour of eastern Kentucky and provides a new portrait of the politician - a politician of uncommon courage who was unafraid to shine a light on our shortcomings.

©2020 Matthew Algeo (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Politicians Politics & Government State & Local United States Kentucky
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Another great Algeo book.

What Matthew Algeo excels at is telling stories from our history that we should know more about, but don’t. The sport of competitive walking, Grover Cleveland’s cancer surgery at sea, the Truman post-presidential road trip, and now this: RFK’s tour of the Appalachians. If you’re into RFK, or want to know why so many still mourn his death, this gives a few under-cited reasons.

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