* Charlie Bartlett had also sensed his unease about Bobby succeeding him. While swimming at Camp David that spring, he had suddenly asked Bartlett whether he thought the nominee would be Bobby or Lyndon, adding that he considered Johnson unfit for the presidency. Bartlett said later, “I didn’t have the feeling from this conversation and some others that John Kennedy was particularly thrilled by the fact that Bobby had decided that he would try to succeed him.” He expressed the same reservations to Chuck Spalding, telling him that he thought Bobby was overly ambitious and “hard-nosing it.”