194 Facts About Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism.

Robert Kennedy began his career as a correspondent for The Boston Post and as a lawyer at the Justice Department, but later resigned to manage his brother John's successful campaign for the US Senate in 1952.

Robert Kennedy gained national attention as the chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee from 1957 to 1959, where he publicly challenged Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa over the union's corrupt practices.

Robert Kennedy resigned from the committee to conduct his brother's successful campaign in the 1960 presidential election.

Robert Kennedy was appointed United States Attorney General at the age of 35, one of the youngest cabinet members in American history.

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Robert Kennedy served as his brother's closest advisor until the latter's 1963 assassination.

Robert Kennedy's tenure is known for advocating for the civil rights movement, the fight against organized crime and the Mafia, and involvement in US foreign policy related to Cuba.

Robert Kennedy authored his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis in a book titled Thirteen Days.

Robert Kennedy left to run for the United States Senate from New York in 1964 and defeated Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating.

Robert Kennedy was an advocate for issues related to human rights and social justice by traveling abroad to eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Africa, and formed working relationships with Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1968, Robert Kennedy became a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency by appealing to poor, African American, Hispanic, Catholic, and young voters.

Shortly after winning the California primary around midnight on June 5,1968, Robert Kennedy was mortally wounded when shot with a pistol by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, allegedly in retaliation for his support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War.

Robert Francis Kennedy was born outside Boston in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 20,1925.

Robert Kennedy's parents were members of two prominent Irish-American families in Boston.

Robert Kennedy's father was a wealthy businessman and a leading figure in the Democratic Party.

Robert Kennedy urged the younger children to examine and discuss current events in order to propel them to public service.

Unlike his older brothers, Robert Kennedy took to heart their mother Rose's agenda for everything to have "a purpose, " which included visiting historic sites during family outings, visits to the church during morning walks, and games used to expand vocabulary and math skills.

Robert Kennedy became an avid stamp collector and once received a handwritten letter from Franklin Roosevelt, a philatelist.

In March 1938, Robert Kennedy sailed to London with his mother and four youngest siblings to join his father, who had begun serving as Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Robert Kennedy attended the private Gibbs School for Boys for seventh grade.

In September 1939, Robert Kennedy began eighth grade at St Paul's School, an elite Protestant private preparatory school for boys in Concord, New Hampshire, that his father favored.

Robert Kennedy enrolled him in Portsmouth Priory School, a Benedictine Catholic boarding school for boys in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, which held daily morning and evening prayers and Mass three times a week, with a High Mass on Sundays.

At Portsmouth Priory School, Robert Kennedy was known as "Mrs Robert Kennedy's little boy Bobby" after he introduced his mother to classmates, who made fun of them.

Robert Kennedy was defensive of his mother, and on one occasion chased a student out of the dormitory after the boy had commented on her appearance.

Robert Kennedy befriended Peter MacLellan and wrote to him, when his brother John was serving in the US Navy, that he would be visiting his brother "because he might be killed any minute".

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Robert Kennedy began developing in other ways, and his brother John noticed his increased physical strength, predicting that the younger Kennedy "would be bouncing me around plenty in two more years".

Father Damian Kearney, who was two classes behind Robert Kennedy, reflected that he "didn't look happy" and that he did not "smile much".

In September 1942, Robert Kennedy transferred to his third boarding school, Milton Academy, in Milton, Massachusetts, for 11th and 12th grades.

Robert Kennedy's father wanted him to transfer to Milton, believing it would better prepare him for Harvard.

Hackett started accompanying him, and was impressed when Robert Kennedy took it upon himself to fill in for a missing altar boy one Sunday.

Robert Kennedy recalled him being funny, "separate, larky; outside the cliques; private all the time".

Robert Kennedy had arrived at Milton unfamiliar with his peers and made little attempt to know the names of his classmates; he called most of the other boys "fella" instead.

Robert Kennedy had an early sense of virtue; he disliked dirty jokes and bullying, once stepping in when an upperclassman tried bothering a younger student.

Robert Kennedy influenced him heavily and, like her, he became a devout Catholic, throughout his lifetime practicing his religion more seriously than the other boys in the family.

Robert Kennedy impressed his parents as a child by taking on a newspaper route, seeking their approval and wishing to distinguish himself.

Robert Kennedy was a ruthless opportunist who would stop at nothing to attain his ambitions.

Robert Kennedy was America's most compassionate public figure, the only person who could save a divided country.

Six weeks before his 18th birthday in 1943, Robert Kennedy enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as a seaman apprentice.

Robert Kennedy was released from active duty in March 1944, when he left Milton Academy early to report to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Robert Kennedy returned to Harvard in June 1945 completing his post-training requirements in January 1946.

Robert Kennedy was frustrated with the apparent desire to shirk military responsibility by some of the other V-12 students.

Robert Kennedy was most affected by his father's reaction to his eldest son's passing.

Robert Kennedy appeared completely heartbroken and his peer Fred Garfield commented that Kennedy developed depression and questioned his faith for a short time.

In September 1946, Robert Kennedy entered Harvard as a junior, having received credit for his time in the V-12 program.

Robert Kennedy worked hard to make the varsity football team as an end; he was a starter and scored a touchdown in the first game of his senior year before breaking his leg in practice.

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Robert Kennedy earned his varsity letter when his coach sent him in wearing a cast during the last minutes of a game against Yale.

Robert Kennedy's father spoke positively of him when he served as a blocking back and sometime receiver for the faster Dave Hackett.

Robert Kennedy earned two varsity letters over the course of the 1946 and 1947 seasons.

Robert Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Robert Kennedy was critical of British policy on Palestine and praised the Jewish people he met there calling them "hardy and tough".

Robert Kennedy held out some hope after seeing Arabs and Jews working side by side but, in the end, feared that the hatred between the groups was too strong and would lead to a war.

On June 17,1950, Robert Kennedy married Ethel Skakel at St Mary's Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Robert Kennedy graduated from law school in June 1951 and flew with Ethel to Greenwich to stay in his father-in-law's guest house.

John's victory was equally important to Robert Kennedy, who felt he had succeeded in eliminating his father's negative perceptions of him.

In December 1952, at his father's behest, Robert Kennedy was appointed by family friend Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy as assistant counsel of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Robert Kennedy disapproved of McCarthy's aggressive methods of garnering intelligence on suspected communists.

Robert Kennedy resigned in July 1953, but "retained a fondness for McCarthy".

Kenneth O'Donnell and Larry O'Brien urged Robert Kennedy to consider running for Massachusetts Attorney General in 1954, but he declined.

Robert Kennedy revealed that Cohn had called the wrong Annie Lee Moss and he requested the file on Moss from the FBI.

When Democrats gained a Senate majority in January 1955, Robert Kennedy became chief counsel and was a background figure in the televised Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954 into McCarthy's conduct.

The Moss incident turned Cohn into an enemy, which led to Robert Kennedy assisting Democratic senators in ridiculing Cohn during the hearings.

Robert Kennedy's father had arranged the nomination, his first national award.

In 1955 Robert Kennedy was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

In 1956, Robert Kennedy moved his growing family outside Washington to a house called Hickory Hill, which he purchased from his brother John.

Robert Kennedy went on to work as an aide to Adlai Stevenson during the 1956 presidential election which helped him learn how national campaigns worked, in preparation for a future run by his brother, Jack.

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Robert Kennedy was a delegate at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, having replaced Tip O'Neil at the request of his brother John, joining in what was ultimately an unsuccessful effort to help JFK get the vice-presidential nomination.

Robert Kennedy was given authority over testimony scheduling, areas of investigation, and witness questioning by McClellan, a move that was made by the chairman to limit attention to himself and allow outrage by organized labor to be directed toward Robert Kennedy.

Robert Kennedy, who was instructed to collect information, discovered several financial irregularities, such as that Hoffa had misappropriated $9.

Senators Barry Goldwater and Karl Mundt wrote to each other and complained about "the Robert Kennedy boys" having hijacked the McClellan Committee by their focus on Hoffa and the Teamsters.

Amidst the allegations, Robert Kennedy wrote in his journal that the two senators had "no guts" as they never addressed him directly, only through the press.

Robert Kennedy left the committee in late 1959 in order to run his brother's presidential campaign.

In 1960, Robert Kennedy published The Enemy Within, a book which described the corrupt practices within the Teamsters and other unions that he had helped investigate.

Robert Kennedy went to work on the presidential campaign of his brother, John.

In contrast to his role in his brother's previous campaign eight years prior, Robert Kennedy gave stump speeches throughout the primary season, gaining confidence as time went on.

Concerned that John Robert Kennedy was going to receive the Democratic Party's nomination, some supporters of Lyndon Johnson, who was running for the nomination, revealed to the press that JFK had Addison's disease, saying that he required life-sustaining cortisone treatments.

Robert Kennedy worked toward downplaying his brother's Catholic faith during the primary but took a more aggressive and supportive stance during the general election.

The following month, Robert Kennedy was involved in securing the release of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Robert Kennedy spoke with Georgia governor Ernest Vandiver and later Judge Oscar Mitchell, after the judge had sentenced King for violating his probation when he protested at a whites-only snack bar.

At the behest of Vice President-elect Johnson, Baker persuaded the influential Southern senator Richard Russell to allow a voice vote to confirm the president's brother in January 1961, as Robert Kennedy "would have been lucky to get 40 votes" on a roll-call vote.

Deputy and assistant attorneys general Robert Kennedy chose included Byron White and Nicholas Katzenbach.

Robert Kennedy played a major role in helping his brother form his cabinet.

John Kennedy wanted to name Senator J William Fulbright, whom he knew and liked, as his secretary of state.

Robert Kennedy persuaded his brother that having Fulbright as secretary of state would cost the Democrats Afro-American votes, leading to Dean Rusk being nominated instead after John Kennedy decided that his next choice, McGeorge Bundy, was too young.

Kennedy was present at the job interview when the CEO of the Ford Motor Company, Robert McNamara, was interviewed by John Kennedy about becoming defense secretary.

Author James W Hilty concludes that Kennedy "played an unusual combination of roles—campaign director, attorney general, executive overseer, controller of patronage, chief adviser, and brother protector" and that nobody before him had had such power.

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Robert Kennedy was relied upon as both the president's primary source of administrative information and as a general counsel with whom trust was implicit.

Robert Kennedy exercised widespread authority over every cabinet department, leading the Associated Press to dub him "Bobby—Washington's No 2-man".

Robert Kennedy is very much the doer in this administration, and has an organizational gift I have rarely if ever seen surpassed.

Robert Kennedy worked to shift Hoover's focus away from communism, which Hoover saw as a more serious threat, to organized crime.

Robert Kennedy was relentless in his pursuit of Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa, due to Hoffa's known corruption in financial and electoral matters, both personally and organizationally, creating a so-called "Get Hoffa" squad of prosecutors and investigators.

The following year, it was leaked that Hoffa had claimed to a Teamster local that Robert Kennedy had been "bodily" removed from his office, the statement being confirmed by a Teamster press agent and Hoffa saying Robert Kennedy had only been ejected.

Robert Kennedy expressed the administration's commitment to civil rights during a 1961 speech at the University of Georgia Law School:.

In October 1963, Robert Kennedy issued a written directive authorizing the FBI to wiretap King and other leaders of the SCLP, King's civil rights organization.

Robert Kennedy remained committed to civil rights enforcement to such a degree that he commented in 1962 that it seemed to envelop almost every area of his public and private life, from prosecuting corrupt Southern electoral officials to answering late-night calls from Coretta Scott King about her husband's imprisonment for demonstrations in Alabama.

Robert Kennedy demanded that every area of government begin recruiting realistic levels of black and other nonwhite workers, going so far as to criticize Vice President Johnson for his failure to desegregate his own office staff.

Robert Kennedy played a large role in the response to the Freedom Riders protests.

Robert Kennedy acted after the Anniston bus bombing to protect the Riders in continuing their journey, sending John Seigenthaler, his administrative assistant, to Alabama to attempt to secure the Riders' safety there.

Robert Kennedy then negotiated the safe passage of the Freedom Riders from the First Baptist Church to Jackson, where they were arrested.

Robert Kennedy offered to bail the Freedom Riders out of jail, but they refused, which upset him.

Robert Kennedy believed the continued international publicity of race riots would tarnish the president heading into international negotiations.

Robert Kennedy was very concerned there might be a "mini-civil war" between federal troops and armed protesters.

President Robert Kennedy reluctantly sent federal troops after the situation on campus turned violent.

Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key to racial justice and collaborated with Presidents Robert Kennedy and Johnson to create the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which helped bring an end to Jim Crow laws.

Between December 1961 and December 1963, Robert Kennedy expanded the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division by 60 percent.

At the president's direction, Robert Kennedy used the power of federal agencies to influence US Steel not to institute a price increase.

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In 1967 Robert Kennedy expressed his strong willingness to support a bill then under consideration for the abolition of the death penalty.

Robert Kennedy helped develop the strategy during the Cuban Missile Crisis to blockade Cuba instead of initiating a military strike that might have led to nuclear war.

Robert Kennedy initially been among the more hawkish members of the administration on matters concerning Cuban insurrectionist aid.

Concurrently, Robert Kennedy served as the president's personal representative in Operation Mongoose, the post-Bay of Pigs covert operations program the president established in November 1961.

At a summit meeting with Japanese prime minister Hayato Ikeda in Washington DC in 1961, President Robert Kennedy promised to make a reciprocal visit to Japan in 1962, but the decision to resume atmospheric nuclear testing forced him to postpone such a visit, and he sent Bobby in his stead.

Robert Kennedy won over a highly skeptical Japanese public and press with his cheerful, open demeanor, sincerity, and youthful energy.

At the time that President Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22,1963, RFK was at home with aides from the Justice Department.

Robert Kennedy later said he thought Hoover had enjoyed telling him the news.

Robert Kennedy then received a call from Tazewell Shepard, a naval aide to the president, who told him that his brother was dead.

Shortly after the call from Hoover, Robert Kennedy phoned McGeorge Bundy at the White House, instructing him to change the locks on the president's files.

Robert Kennedy ordered the Secret Service to dismantle the Oval Office and cabinet room's secret taping systems.

Robert Kennedy scheduled a meeting with CIA director John McCone and asked if the CIA had any involvement in his brother's death.

McCone denied it, with Robert Kennedy later telling investigator Walter Sheridan that he asked the director "in a way that he couldn't lie to me, and they [the CIA] hadn't".

An hour after the president was shot, Bobby Robert Kennedy received a phone call from Vice President Johnson before Johnson boarded Air Force One.

Robert Kennedy was originally opposed to Jacqueline Kennedy's decision to have a closed casket, as he wanted the funeral to keep with tradition, but he changed his mind after seeing the cosmetic, waxen remains.

Robert Kennedy was asked by Democratic Party leaders to introduce a film about his late brother at the 1964 party convention.

Robert Kennedy was a malcontent who could not get along here or in the Soviet Union.

Several Robert Kennedy partisans called for him to be drafted in tribute to his brother; national polling showed that three of four Democrats were in favor of him as Johnson's running mate.

Schlesinger thought that he should develop his own political base first, and Robert Kennedy observed that the job "was really based on waiting around for someone to die".

On July 27,1964, Robert Kennedy was summoned to the White House and told by Johnson that he did not want him as his running mate, leading the former to say "I could have helped you".

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Johnson wanted Robert Kennedy to tell the media that he decided to withdraw his name, but he refused, saying the president could do that himself.

Johnson wanted a way to announce that he had refused Robert Kennedy serving as his running mate without appearing to be motivated by malice towards a man he disliked and distrusted.

At the DNC, Robert Kennedy appeared on the stage to introduce a film honoring his late brother, A Thousand Days, causing the convention hall to explode with cheers for 22 minutes despite Robert Kennedy's gestures indicating that he wanted the crowd to fall silent so he could began his speech.

Senator Henry Jackson advised Robert Kennedy, "Let them get it out of their system" as he stood on the stage raising his hand to signal he wanted the crowd to stop cheering.

Nine months after his brother's assassination, Robert Kennedy left the cabinet to run for a seat in the US Senate representing New York, announcing his candidacy on August 25,1964, two days before the end of that year's Democratic National Convention.

Robert Kennedy was lauded during trips to Germany and Poland, the denizens of the latter country's greetings to Robert Kennedy being interpreted by Leaming as evaporating the agony he had sustained since his brother's passing.

Robert Kennedy's opponent was Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating, who attempted to portray Kennedy as an arrogant carpetbagger since he did not reside in the state.

Robert Kennedy drew attention in Congress early on as the brother of President Robert Kennedy, which set him apart from other senators.

Robert Kennedy drew more than 50 senators as spectators when he delivered a speech in the Senate on nuclear proliferation in June 1965.

Robert Kennedy saw his brother as a guide on managing within the Senate, and the arrangement worked to deepen their relationship.

Harris noted that Robert Kennedy was intense about matters and issues that concerned him.

On February 8,1966, Robert Kennedy urged the United States to pledge that it would not be the first country to use nuclear weapons against countries that did not have them noting that China had made the pledge and the Soviet Union indicated it was willing to do so.

Robert Kennedy spoke out against the oppression of the native population, and was welcomed by the black population as though he were a visiting head of state.

On January 28,1967, Robert Kennedy began a ten-day stay in Europe, meeting Harold Wilson in London who advised him to tell President Johnson about his belief that the ongoing Vietnam conflict was wrong.

Schlesinger wrote that Robert Kennedy had hoped Bedford-Stuyvesant would become an example of self-imposed growth for other impoverished neighborhoods.

Robert Kennedy had difficulty securing support from President Johnson, whose administration was charged by Robert Kennedy as having opposed a "special impact" program meant to bring about the federal progress that he had supported.

Robert Kennedy visited the Mississippi Delta as a member of the Senate committee reviewing the effectiveness of "War on Poverty" programs, particularly that of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

Robert Kennedy sought to remedy the problems of poverty through legislation to encourage private industry to locate in poverty-stricken areas, thus creating jobs for the unemployed, and stressed the importance of work over welfare.

Robert Kennedy worked on the Senate Labor Committee at the time of the workers' rights activism of Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the National Farm Workers Association.

Robert Kennedy spoke forcefully in favor of what he called the "disaffected", the impoverished, and "the excluded", thereby aligning himself with leaders of the civil rights struggle and social justice campaigners, leading the Democratic party in pursuit of a more aggressive agenda to eliminate perceived discrimination on all levels.

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Robert Kennedy supported desegregation busing, integration of all public facilities, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and anti-poverty social programs to increase education, offer opportunities for employment, and provide health care for African Americans.

JFK administration had backed US involvement in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world in the frame of the Cold War, but Robert Kennedy was not known to be involved in discussions on the Vietnam War when he was his brother's attorney general.

Robert Kennedy cautioned Johnson against sending combat troops as early as 1965, but Johnson chose instead to follow the recommendation of the rest of his predecessor's still intact staff of advisers.

The next month, John Paul Vann, a lieutenant colonel in the US Army, wrote that Robert Kennedy "indicat[ed] comprehension of the problems we face", in a letter to the senator.

In February 1966, Robert Kennedy released a peace plan that called for preserving South Vietnam while at the same time allowing the National Liberation Front, better known as the Viet Cong, to join a coalition government in Saigon.

Robert Kennedy was displeased when he heard anti-war protesters chanting his name, saying "I'm not Wayne Morse".

Robert Kennedy wanted to press the Johnson administration to do more, but Heymann insisted that the administration believed the "consequences of sitting down with the Viet Cong" mattered more than the prisoners they were holding captive.

On June 29 of that year, Robert Kennedy released a statement disavowing President Johnson's choice to bomb Haiphong, but he avoided criticizing either the war or the president's overall foreign policy, believing that it might harm Democratic candidates in the 1966 midterm elections.

Robert Kennedy voiced this during a meeting with Kennedy, who reiterated the interest of the European leaders to pause the bombing while going forward with negotiations; Johnson declined to do so.

On November 26,1967, during an appearance on Face the Nation, Robert Kennedy asserted that the Johnson administration had deviated from his brother's policies in Vietnam, his first time contrasting the two administrations' policies on the war.

Robert Kennedy added that the view that Americans were fighting to end communism in Vietnam was "immoral".

On February 8,1968, Robert Kennedy delivered an address in Chicago, where he critiqued Saigon "government corruption" and expressed his disagreement with the Johnson administration's stance that the war would determine the future of Asia.

Clifford's notes indicate that Robert Kennedy was offering not to enter the ongoing Democratic presidential primary if President Johnson would admit publicly to having been wrong in his war policy and appoint "a group of persons to conduct a study in depth of the issues and come up with a recommended course of action"; Johnson rejected the proposal.

Later that month, Robert Kennedy called the war "the gravest kind of error" in a speech in Corvallis, Oregon.

Robert Kennedy traveled to Delano, California, to meet with civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, who was on a 25-day hunger strike showing his commitment to nonviolence.

Weekend before the New Hampshire primary, Robert Kennedy announced to several aides that he would attempt to persuade McCarthy to withdraw from the race to avoid splitting the antiwar vote, but Senator George McGovern urged Robert Kennedy to wait until after that primary to announce his candidacy.

Robert Kennedy ran on a platform of racial and economic justice, non-aggression in foreign policy, decentralization of power, and social change.

Robert Kennedy wanted to be a bridge across the divide of American society.

Robert Kennedy visited numerous small towns and made himself available to the masses by participating in long motorcades and street-corner stump speeches, often in troubled inner cities.

Robert Kennedy made urban poverty a chief concern of his campaign, which in part led to enormous crowds that would attend his events in poor urban areas or rural parts of Appalachia.

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Robert Kennedy addressed the City Club of Cleveland the next day, on April 5,1968, delivering the famous On the Mindless Menace of Violence speech.

Robert Kennedy attended King's funeral, accompanied by Jacqueline and Ted Kennedy.

Robert Kennedy addressed his supporters shortly after midnight on June 5,1968, in a ballroom at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Robert Kennedy did this despite being advised by his bodyguard—former FBI agent Bill Barry—to avoid the kitchen.

Robert Kennedy was hit three times, and five other people were wounded.

Immediately following the Mass, Robert Kennedy's body was transported by a special private train to Washington, DC Robert Kennedy's funeral train was pulled by two Penn Central GG1 electric locomotives.

Kennedy was buried close to his brother John in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC Although he had always maintained that he wished to be buried in Massachusetts, his family believed Robert should be interred in Arlington next to his brother.

On June 17,1950, Robert Kennedy married socialite Ethel Skakel, the third daughter of businessman George and Ann Skakel, at St Mary's Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Robert Kennedy owned a home at the well-known Robert Kennedy compound on Cape Cod, in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, but spent most of his time at his estate in McLean, Virginia, known as Hickory Hill.

Robert Kennedy was said to be the gentlest and shyest of the family, as well as the least articulate verbally.

Robert Kennedy's mother had a similar concern, as he was the "smallest and thinnest", but soon afterward, the family discovered "there was no fear of that".

Billings said Robert Kennedy was barely noticed "in the early days, but that's because he didn't bother anybody".

Robert Kennedy was teased by his siblings, as in their family it was a norm for humor to be displayed in that fashion.

Robert Kennedy's competitiveness was admired by his father and elder brothers, while his loyalty bound them more affectionately close.

Robert Kennedy had always been closer to John than the other members of the family.

Schlesinger comments that Robert Kennedy could be both the most ruthlessly diligent and yet generously adaptable of politicians, at once both temperamental and forgiving.

Robert Kennedy lacked the innate self-confidence of his contemporaries yet found a greater self-assurance in the experience of married life, an experience that he stated had given him a base of self-belief from which to continue his efforts in the public arena.

Robert Kennedy was blunt to a fault, and his favorite campaign activity was arguing with college students.

Robert Kennedy's Catholicism was central to his politics and personal attitude to life and its purpose; he inherited his faith from his family.

Robert Kennedy was more religious than his brothers and approached his duties with a Catholic worldview.

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Robert Kennedy's was not an unresponsive and staid faith, but the faith of a Catholic Radical, perhaps the first successful Catholic Radical in American political history.

Robert Kennedy's was a muscular liberalism, committed to an activist federal government but deeply suspicious of concentrated power and certain that fundamental change would best be achieved at the community level, insistent on responsibilities as well as rights, and convinced that the dynamism of capitalism could be the impetus for broadening national growth.

Robert Kennedy was the first sibling of a president of the United States to serve as US Attorney General.

Robert Kennedy has been praised for his oratorical abilities and his skill at creating unity.

Robert Kennedy's assassination was a blow to the optimism for a brighter future that his campaign had brought for many Americans who lived through the turbulent 1960s.

Robert Kennedy's death has been cited as a significant factor in the Democratic Party's loss of the 1968 presidential election.

Robert Kennedy has been the subject of several documentaries and has appeared in various works of popular culture.

Robert Kennedy is played by Peter Sarsgaard in the film about Jacqueline Kennedy, Jackie.

Robert Kennedy is played by Jack Huston in Martin Scorsese's film The Irishman.