Opinion
Campaign Stops: Calm — and Hope — in Indianapolis [click here]
By Ron Klain
Published: April 3, 2008
Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the death of Martin Luther King during a campaign stop in Indiana still resonate today in this primary season.

"Forty years later, whenever I hear people say that a politician’s speeches don’t matter, that campaigns are a waste and that the sort of conflict we have in the 2008 Democratic primary is “destructive,” I think of Robert Kennedy’s words in Indianapolis that night — a speech that would have never happened but for the hard-fought, highly competitive 1968 primary campaign — and the millions of people like me who were inspired by them and their impact on that city."

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sorry about the subtitles.