When Politics Get Personal: Politicians’ Most Insulting Slurs & Feuds

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson & Robert F. Kennedy Feuded For Years

In 1961, during a dinner at the White House, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson confronted Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, demanding, ”Bobby, you do not like me. Your brother likes me. Your sister-in-law likes me. Your daddy likes me. But you don’t like me. Now, why? Why don’t you like me?” The feud began during JFK’s presidential campaign when Johnson brought up Kennedy’s health problems and the fact that he was Catholic. Robert Kennedy took the criticism extremely personally. After Johnson became president, the animosity grew, particularly during the Vietnam War. Johnson blamed Kennedy for spreading ”lies” about him and being in cahoots with ”those bomb-throwing… fuzzy-headed Georgetown liberals.”