Frank as it is - and maybe it's difficult to believe in the state of New York - I'd like to just be a good United States Senator. And I don't need the money and I don't need the office space. I tell you frankly I don't need this title because I be called General, I understand, for the rest of my life. And I - my father has done very well and I could have lived off him. "I could have stayed in - I could have retired. "I have really two choices over the period of the last ten months," he said at Columbia University. Kennedy responded to the attacks with humor. His opponent, incumbent Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, labeled Kennedy a "carpetbagger" during the closely contested campaign. Soon after President Kennedy's death, Robert Kennedy resigned as Attorney General and, in 1964, ran successfully for the United States Senate from New York. He then negotiated with the Soviet Union on removal of the weapons. During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, for instance, he helped develop the Kennedy administration's strategy to blockade Cuba instead of taking military action that could have led to nuclear war. As a result of this unique relationship, the Attorney General played a key role in several critical foreign policy decisions. Robert Kennedy was not only President Kennedy's Attorney General, he was also his closest advisor and confidant. Robert Kennedy believed that voting was the key to achieving racial justice and collaborated with President Kennedy in proposing the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which passed eight months after President Kennedy's death.
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The riot that had followed Meredith's registration at "Ole Miss" had left two dead and hundreds injured. In September 1962, Attorney General Kennedy sent US Marshals and troops to Oxford, Mississippi to enforce a federal court order admitting the first African American student - James Meredith - to the University of Mississippi. Some of you may believe the decision was wrong. I happen to believe that the 1954 decision was right. He demonstrated his commitment to civil rights during a 1961 speech at the University of Georgia Law School: "We will not stand by or be aloof. He also became increasingly committed to helping African Americans win the right to vote, attend integrated schools and use public accommodations.
While Attorney General, he won respect for his diligent, effective and nonpartisan administration of the Department of Justice.Īttorney General Kennedy launched a successful drive against organized crime, and convictions against organized crime figures rose by 800% during his tenure. After the election, he was appointed Attorney General in President Kennedy's cabinet.
In 1960, he was the tireless and effective manager of John F. His later work as Chief Counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee investigating corruption in trade unions won him national recognition for exposing Teamsters' Union leaders Jimmy Hoffa and David Beck. He later returned to the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations as chief counsel for the Democratic minority, in which capacity he wrote a report condemning McCarthy's investigation of alleged Communists in the Army. Disturbed by McCarthy's controversial tactics, Kennedy resigned from the staff after six months.
The following year, he served briefly on the staff of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy. In 1952, he made his political debut as manager of his older brother John's successful campaign for the US Senate from Massachusetts. In 1950, Robert Kennedy married Ethel Skakel of Greenwich, Connecticut, daughter of Ann Brannack Skakel and George Skakel, founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation. Robert and Ethel Kennedy later had eleven children. Roosevelt was doing or what was happening in the world."
"I can hardly remember a mealtime," Robert Kennedy said, "when the conversation was not dominated by what Franklin D. Perhaps more important for his education was the Kennedy family dinner table, where his parents involved their children in discussions of history and current affairs. He earned his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School three years later. He attended Milton Academy and, after wartime service in the Navy, received his degree in government from Harvard University in 1948. "I was the seventh of nine children," he later recalled, "and when you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive." Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh child in the closely knit and competitive family of Rose and Joseph P.
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