Formidable

"By the time his campaign reached the pivotal California primary, Bobby Kennedy was beginning to wrestle with a variety of formidable problems that he knew would confront him as president. One of them was the CIA. What was he going to do with it, he wondered out loud one day on the campaign plane with Pete Hamill, one of the journalists who grew so close to Kennedy that he briefly wrote speeches for him. 'I have to decide whether to eliminate the operations arm of the agency or what the hell to do with it,' Kennedy told Hamill. 'We can’t have these cowboys wandering around and shooting people and doing all these unauthorized things.'"
--David Talbot,
"Brothers"