Reply #23: I shook his hand in the Felt Forum.

[aquart]

That was his first rally there. He took our hands and looked into our eyes, and I understood what they meant by charisma. I never worked harder for any candidate.

The second rally was after RFK's assassination. McCarthy was ringed by Secret Service and no one could get near him. That was when I realized he no longer had a chance. A camera caught me at that second, and the picture appeared in a local paper telling people that a volunteer was exhausted. That wasn't it.

And I did wonder, around that time, if RFK hadn't entered the race to take what McCarthy had earned, if RFK wouldn't still be alive. But I guess the course of the nation was set.