I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

I think we can do better. That is what Robert Kennedy always said. I think we can do better too. Won't you join me in the effort?

From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.

We all lined up to meet Kennedy.

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.