In early 1968, Robert F. Kennedy's presidential bid revealed the candidate's obsession with the poverty issue, even as his advisers fretted he was wasting time visiting a Native American reservation in remote South Dakota. "I think it's a terrible reflection on our society," RFK said after his now-celebrated 1967 tour of the Mississippi Delta."We are not doing what we should be doing in the country to deal with this problem." But even as Kennedy uttered those words, white backlash against "The War on Poverty" was already rising, fueled by resentment over violent uprisings in cities like Newark and Detroit where angry blacks said any gains weren't coming fast enough. The 1968 assassinations of King and Kennedy just over two months apart seemed to close the lid on their shared dream.