Robert Kennedy in an interview to "Voice of America" in 1968: Things are "moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years."
Obama was elected in 2008, exactly 4o years later.
And Ethel Kennedy, Bobby's widow, invited the then new senator Obama to deliver a keynote speech at an RFK 80th birthday event in 2005. At that event, before his campaign had even been spoke of, she referred to Obama as "our next president."
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