The year was 1974. The place was Forest Hills Tennis Stadium (back when the Forest Hills Open was actually played in Forest Hills). I was 19 years old at the time (and a far-Left Liberal). I was working behind the scenes for the caterer of the event.

Sen. Kennedy passed by the table I was working at and asked me and the other person who I was working with:

“Excuse me. Do you know where the bathroom is?”

Looking back now (as a voluntaryist) to that brief encounter in 1974, I can only think that at that moment he was going to do in the bathroom what he spent his entire professional life doing on the American people.”