dcdecoder: On this day in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy sat down with the Monitor Breakfast. Less than five months before his assassination in Los Angeles, the then-Democratic Senator from New York and presidential candidate was the 12th guest at what was then known as the Sperling Breakfast, a series that now counts over 3,700 events - and four sitting American presidents - in its history. RFK followed Michigan Governor George Romney (father of current GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney); Arlen Specter, a future Senator from Pennsylvania who was then a district attorney in Philadelphia and vice president Hubert Humphrey, among others, in the breakfast’s early days. In attendance at RFK’s breakfast were Washington journalism greats Bob Novak and David Broder along with the breakfast’s founding host, Monitor staffer Godfrey “Budge” Sperling, from whom the breakfast got its name. For more history on the Monitor Breakfast, see this background. — David Grant

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On this day in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy sat down with the Monitor Breakfast.

Less than five months before his assassination in Los Angeles, the then-Democratic Senator from New York and presidential candidate was the 12th guest at what was then known as the Sperling Breakfast, a series that now counts over 3,700 events - and four sitting American presidents - in its history.

RFK followed Michigan Governor George Romney (father of current GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney); Arlen Specter, a future Senator from Pennsylvania who was then a district attorney in Philadelphia and vice president Hubert Humphrey, among others, in the breakfast’s early days.

In attendance at RFK’s breakfast were Washington journalism greats Bob Novak and David Broder along with the breakfast’s founding host, Monitor staffer Godfrey “Budge” Sperling, from whom the breakfast got its name.

For more history on the Monitor Breakfast, see this background.

— David Grant