" Robert Kennedy despised the way Johnson treated his subordinates -- " They 're all scared , of course , of Lyndon ..... He yells at his staff . He treats them just terribly . Very Mean . He's a very mean , mean figure " -- and resented the success of those methods , his ability " to eat people up , even people who are considered rather strong figures ... Mac Budy or Bob McNamara : There is nothing left of them . " He despised his methods : the way , for example , he made men beg . " Ralph Dungan was trying to work out appointments .... And Johnson said he wanted to make sure that everybody who was at all interested called him personally and ask him for the person to be appointed so that they would know they'd be personally indebted to him as President . " But Robert Kennedy's feelings about Lyndon Johnson went beyond such analysis . It was in one of these interviews that he said , " Our President was a gentleman and a human being .... This man is not ... He's mean , bitter , vicious -- an animal in many ways . "
As there had been no change in Lyndon Johnson's feelings toward Robert Kennedy . "