"The Once and Future King"

"It was Bobby's America, and Harrington couldn't keep from staring. 'Every time I did, I began to cry. The sorrowing faces along the way were a mirror of my own feelings,' said the author whose writings helped launch the War on Poverty and who saw Bobby as 'the man who actually could have changed the course of American history.' As for those with him inside the rail cars—politicians of the old school and new, intellectuals and trade unionists, Black, Irish, Chicano, and Jewish citizens—they were, said Harrington, 'the administration of Robert Kennedy that was never going to be.'"

Larry Tye at Politico asks if Robert F. Kennedy was in position to become President in 1968.