But although “John Kennedy was determined to go down in history as the 'Great President' but... it never occurred to him that greatness could be found in the Lincoln steps to intervene in the field of civil rights". Robert was no different, and Jack Newfield of the New York Post said that the “consistent moralistic and emotional root of Kennedy's politics” motivated his crusades. Newfield also disputed that “Kennedy has always hated Evil with a certain and principled passion.” However, in the early 1960s, racism did not catch Robert Kennedy's attention as something to consider as a huge problem. He had previously shown a rather clear opinion on the issue. In 1951, Robert headed the Student Legal Forum, a committee responsible for bringing student speakers to the University of Virginia Law School. Robert extended an invitation to Dr. Ralph Bunche, the UN-appointed mediator for the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Dr. Bunche refused to accept the invitation if the crowd wanted to remain segregated, as dictated by Virginia state law. Kennedy, to allow the speech to proceed as planned, pushed for a resolution to allow integrated seating, "[labeling] the student council position 'morally indefensible'" and when asked to compromise by his fellow students, he shouted "you are all gutless. In the end, the dean of the law school and