Feb 25, 2021 · After winning the 1960 presidential election, President-elect John F. Kennedy appointed his younger brother attorney general. According to Bobby Baker, the Senate majority secretary and a protégé of Lyndon Johnson, President-elect Kennedy did not want to name his brother attorney general.
December 16: Fifty-two years ago in 1960, JFK Appointed Brother RFK as Attorney General. In November 1959, Robert Kennedy became manager of his brother’s presidential campaign. Following the Kennedy victory, the President-elect tapped his brother, on December 16, 1960, to be Attorney General.
When President John F. Kennedy appointed his brother Robert F. Kennedy as the 64th U.S. Attorney General in 1961, did people consider it as a case of nepotism? What was the motive for that? To keep J. Edgar Hoover/the FBI under control?
What position did Kennedy appoint his brother Robert to? Kennedy resigned from the committee to conduct his brother's campaign in the 1960 presidential election. He was appointed United States Attorney General after the successful election and served as the closest advisor to the President from 1961 to 1963.
For the next several years, Kennedy assisted with his brother's campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 1952 and his presidential campaign in 1960. ... After his brother was elected president by a narrow margin over Richard Nixon, Kennedy was appointed Attorney General of the United States.
Although he was president for less than three years, John F. Kennedy appointed two men to the Supreme Court of the United States: Byron White and Arthur Goldberg.
42 years (1925–1968)Robert F. Kennedy / Age at death
Robert Francis KennedyRobert Francis Kennedy (RFK) served as President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Attorney General.
Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key to racial justice and collaborated with President Kennedy when he proposed the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was passed after President Kennedy was slain on November 22, 1963.
In total Kennedy appointed 126 Article III federal judges, including 2 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 20 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 102 judges to the United States district courts, 1 judge to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and 1 judge to the United States ...
William Howard Taft was elected the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930), the only person to have served in both of these offices.
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his ...
Ramsey ClarkClark in 196866th United States Attorney GeneralIn office November 28, 1966 – January 20, 1969 Acting: November 28, 1966 – March 10, 1967PresidentLyndon B. Johnson28 more rows
In 1814 Madison offered Rush the choice of Secretary of the Treasury or Attorney General of the United States, of which positions Rush chose the latter. With his appointment as Attorney General, Rush became the youngest person to serve in that office.
Robert F. KennedyTed KennedyJoseph P. Kennedy Jr.John F. Kennedy/Brothers
John Fitzgerald KennedyJohn F. Kennedy / Full name
Rosemary KennedyEunice Kennedy ShriverJean Kennedy SmithPatricia Kennedy LawfordKathleen CavendishJohn F. Kennedy/Sisters
June 6, 1968, PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CARobert F. Kennedy / Assassinated
November 22, 1963John F. Kennedy / Date of assassination
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. ... The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.
President Kennedy's appointment of his 35-year-old brother Robert Francis Kennedy as the attorney general of the United States was controversial. According to many, Robert Kennedy, the youngest attorney general since 1814, lacked experience in practicing law. But he silenced the critics by assembling a skilled and dedicated staff, and by promoting innovative and aggressive programs to enforce civil rights, combat organized crime, improve legal access for the poor, and develop new approaches to juvenile delinquency. A display of film footage and personal items of Robert F. Kennedy provide a glimpse into the Attorney General's office. The centerpiece of the exhibit are documents and personal items of Robert Kennedy's placed atop a desk as they would have been on a September day in 1962. Among the items are the his glasses, pens and pencils, his original telephone, bookends, and drawings taped on the wall from his young children.
Robert Kennedy brought to the Justice Department a reputation as a relentless fighter against crime and corruption. As Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate’s “Rackets” Committee he had direct experience of the influence of organized crime on America’s economy and government.
The dent in the helmet resulted from a blow by a lead pipe wielding rioter. Many of the U.S. Marshals sustained injuries in the rioting by those who sought to block Meredith's enrollment. Robert F. Kennedy kept this helmet on a table behind his desk in the Attorney General's office.
Kennedy displayed this bust of Winston Churchill and an autographed copy of Churchill's We Shall Never Surrender speech to the House of Commons in his Attorney General's office. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.
Kennedy provide a glimpse into the Attorney General's office. The centerpiece of the exhibit are documents and personal items of Robert Kennedy's placed atop a desk as they would have been on a September day in 1962.
After the Bay of Pigs debacle, Robert Kennedy became an intimate adviser in intelligence matters and major international negotiations. His efforts during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 were crucial in shaping a peaceful outcome.
After the Bay of Pigs debacle, Robert Kennedy became an intimate adviser in intelligence matters and major international negotiations.