Nov 08, 2009 · Robert Kennedy stayed on as attorney general under President Johnson until September 1964, when he resigned to embark on a campaign to represent New York in …
Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968 Letters (Correspondence) Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material (s): Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968, Author Scope & Content Letter from Robert F. Kennedy to President Lyndon B. Johnson resigning as Attorney General of the United States.
Note: Mr. Kennedy served as Attorney General from January 21, 1961, through September 3, 1964. His letter of resignation, dated September 3, was released on the same day.
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. Kennedy waged an effective statewide campaign and, aided by President Lyndon Johnson's landslide, won the November election by 719,000 votes.
Robert Kennedy resigned the attorney general post in 1964, following his brother's assassination, and waged a successful campaign to become a U.S. Senator from New York. In the Senate, he worked for the cause of the urban poor and emerged as an outspoken critic of President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy.
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He is a nephew of president and senator John F. Kennedy, and senator Ted Kennedy. Kennedy grew up at his family's homes in McLean, Virginia, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Shortly after leaving the podium and exiting through a kitchen hallway, he was mortally wounded by multiple shots fired from a handgun. Kennedy died in the Good Samaritan Hospital 26 hours later. The shooter was 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan.
In the Senate, Kennedy initially continued to support U.S. efforts in Vietnam despite his growing apprehension about the war, especially the massive bombing of North Vietnam, because he was reluctant to disagree with the Johnson administration and its handling of the war.
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What made him sound as if he was choking up? In truth, Kennedy has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, a specific form of an involuntary movement disorder called dystonia that affects only the voice box.
Kennedy delivered a speech in Chicago, declaring that the war in Vietnam could not be won militarily: “Our enemy, savagely striking at will across all of South Vietnam, has finally shattered the mask of official illusion with which we have concealed our true circumstances, even from ourselves.
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent 400 federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders and urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to order the desegregation of interstate travel.
senator from New York from 1965 to 1968. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Kennedy was appointed attorney general after his brother John Kennedy was elected president in 1960. In this role, Robert Kennedy fought organized crime and worked for civil rights for African Americans. In the Senate, he was a committed advocate of the poor and racial minorities , and opposed escalation of the Vietnam War. On June 5, 1968, while in Los Angeles campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy was shot. He died early the next day at age 42.
After John F. Kennedy was elected president in November 1960, he named his brother Robert Kennedy as America’s 64th attorney general. In this role, Kennedy continued to battle corruption in labor unions, as well as mobsters and organized crime. In 1964, Jimmy Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering and fraud.
Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a wealthy financier, and Rose Kennedy, the daughter of a Boston politician. Kennedy spent his childhood between his family’s homes in New York; Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Palm Beach, Florida; and London, ...
In 1964, Jimmy Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering and fraud. As attorney general, Kennedy also supported the civil rights movement for African Americans.
Artist: Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925. He served with the United States Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. He earned a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1948, was a correspondent on The Boston Post, and in 1951 graduated from the University of Virginia Law School.
From 1957 to 1960 Kennedy was chief counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field.
Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on 20 November 1925, the seventh of nine children to the wealthy businessman and politician Joseph P. Kennedy Sr . and socialite Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy married his wife Ethel in 1950 and they went on to have 11 children, several of whom went on to become politicians and activists. They had a lively and busy family home with Ethel being a constant source of support to her husband’s political ambitions.
Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy was a friend of the Kennedy family and agreed to hire Robert F. Kennedy, who at the time was working as a young lawyer. He was placed on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which examined possible communists infiltration of the U.S.
From 1957 to 1959 he was the chief counsel for a new subcommittee investigating corruption in the country’s powerful trade unions. Led by the popular Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters Union had over 1 million members and was one of the most powerful groups in the country.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy addresses a crowd at San Fernando Valley State College during his 1968 presidential primary campaign.
In 1965 Robert F. Kennedy and a team of climbers reached the summit of the 14,000-foot Canadian mountain which had been named after his brother, President John F. Kennedy, months earlier. When he reached the peak he left placed several personal items of President Kennedy, including a copy of his inaugural address and a memorial medallion.
On the 15 of May 1967 the television news network CBS held a live debate between California’s new Republican governor, Ronald Reagan, and Robert F. Kennedy, who had just become New York’s new Democratic senator.