In 1968 I was a member of the Democratic Party in the United States, but I opposed Robert F. Kennedy for president because my impression was that he was a ruthless demagogue with a disregard for the rule of law.

I distrusted him because of his previous support of Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy

In December 1952, at the behest of his father, he was appointed by Republican Senator Joe McCarthy as assistant counsel of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He resigned in July 1953, but "retained a fondness for McCarthy."

As attorney general during his brother’s administration he announced that he was ‘going to get Jimmy Hoffa.’ As the chief counsel of the 1957–59 Senate Labor Rackets Committee he knew about Hoffa’s activities. However, it was very wrong to state he was going to ‘get’ anyone. It was an abuse of power. A prosecutor must ask for an indictment, and then, if it is granted, put the accused on trial and prove his case. Bobby Kennedy didn’t seem to appreciate those niceties.

When Eugene McCarthy (not Joe McCarthy) showed in the New Hampshire primary that LBJ was vulnerable Kennedy demanded that McCarthy step aside and let him take over. That was a display of arrogance.

I wept when he was assassinated as I thought it a tragedy. However, had he survived and been elected president I don’t think he would have been a good one.

In 1968 the US was torn by the Vietnam War and by the challenge to entrenched racism.

Had he been elected president I think Kennedy with his arrogance and demagoguery would have aroused so much opposition that he would have been unable to do as much as Nixon did. Nixon continued the war but made some good moves against racism.

"Pain which cannot forget"?

It was dead, buried, and forgotten long ago, and would remain so but for people such as Minas reminding us.