American politician and lawyer (1925–1968)
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He prosecuted the Teamsters, steered his brother through the Cuban Missile Crisis as attorney general, then ran for president on a platform that spoke to the poor and the young—until a gunman in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen ended it hours after he won California.
Born into the Kennedy dynasty in Brookline in 1925, Robert Kennedy managed his brother John's Senate run in 1952, then made his name grilling Jimmy Hoffa as chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee from 1957 to 1959. At 35 he became one of the youngest attorneys general in history, pushing civil rights enforcement and authorizing wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr. while navigating Cold War crises alongside the president. After John's assassination in 1963 he stayed under Lyndon Johnson briefly, then won a New York Senate seat in 1964 despite carpetbagger charges. He opposed Vietnam,…
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When there were periods of crisis, you stood beside him. When there were periods of happiness, you laughed with him. And when there were periods of sorrow, you comforted him.
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident. I observe regretfully that in politics, however, it can be heresy.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
In the words of the old saying, every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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