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Essay / How Robert F. Kennedy Influenced Jfk's Presidential Election in mind that greatness could be found in the Lincolnesque steps to intervene in the area of civil rights. Robert was no different, and Jack Newfield of the New York Post said that "the consistent moral and emotional roots of Kennedy's policies" motivated his crusades. Newfield also disputed that "Kennedy always hounded Evil with a certain principled passion." However, in the early 1960s, racism did not receive Robert Kennedy's attention as a major problem. Previously, he had shown a fairly strong opinion on the issue. In 1951, Robert was head of the Student Legal Forum, a committee responsible for bringing student speakers to the University of Virginia Law School. Robert extended an invitation to Dr. Ralph Bunche, the United Nations-appointed mediator for the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Dr. Bunche refused to accept the invitation if the crowd was to remain separated, as the law of the State of Virginia. Kennedy, in order to allow the speech to proceed as planned, pushed for a resolution authorizing the integration of seats, "[calling] the position of the student council 'morally indefensible'" and when his comrades asked him to make a compromise, he shouted “you are all gutless. Finally, the dean of the law faculty and
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