U.S. Senator Barack Obama poses with a basketball at the Spencer Family YMCA while on the Presidential Campaign Trail on Dec. 16, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Bill Frakes)

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“It was his ability to laugh at himself, to make light of problems, to tease and be playful, to employ a wry, self-deprecating sense of his own limitations and frailties that had such great appeal.

He possessed both Scott Fitzgerald’s “wise and tragic sense of life” and a highly developed sense of humor and irony. It gave him a special perspective, and accounted for his extraordinary hold on so many different types of people. There really wasn’t any great mystery in why voters who started out supporting George Wallace ended up saying they wanted Kennedy. Ideology didn’t count to them; their conviction that Kennedy cared made the difference. He had touched them in ways that are not easy to explain and yet are quite simple. They believed him to be real, and they admired his spirit, both his humor and his seriousness of purpose… .

Much was made of Bob Kennedy’s ruthlessness and opportunism. He was tough, all right. He made enemies, and mistakes. He hit hard. But he was also capable of the personal – and unpublicized – acts toward people who could never do him any good, politically or otherwise.

A public figure who has the capacity to cry over injustice or the cruelty of life can never be entirely bad. Bob Kennedy could weep at times. His friends loved him for that quality, and forgave him for his faults.

The tears aren’t what are remembered now. It’s the humor, the lightness of spirit, the depth of feeling that never go out of style. They are, in their way, the real Kennedy legacy, and the reason so many people responded so strongly to one politician who wanted to be president. Politics had nothing to do with it. The humanity did.”