As the February 5th California primary approaches we might learn something from looking at how Senator Robert F. Kennedy won the state in 1968 against both Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey (who was not on the ballot but had a stand-in candidate). The following are excerpts from the California campaign chapter of my book, In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, (Columbia, 2001):
California was the most important testing ground for Kennedy's...
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