About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — delivered a rousing address at Vanderbilt University that came to be known as one of his greatest speeches.

Quoting his presidential uncle John, who had himself been assassinated less than five years prior, Kennedy told those Vanderbilt students that they were the people who had "the least ties to the present and the greatest ties to the future" — a future that seemed, thanks to the Vietnam War and civil unrest stateside, dangerously close to not happening at all.

Bobby Kennedy's hopeful promise to the United States' young voters couldn't seem further away in 2025, as his son's anti-scientific turn at the Department of Health

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