Robert Kennedy

How Two Teenagers Beat the Secret Service

Paul Raeburn | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tareq and Michaele Salahi, White House Gate Crasher, Secret Service, Gop, Vietnam War Protests, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Robert Kennedy, Desiree Rogers Social Secretary, Vietnam War, Politics News

Tareq and Michaele Salahi are not the first gate-crashers to discover that the Secret Service isn't so tough.

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SLIDESHOW: Kennedy Wisdom In Esquire

Esquire | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, President Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Marking the end of a 70-year dynasty: wisdom and advice from JFK, RFK, and Ted, much of it recently uncovered, surprising, and as you've rarely heard ...

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No JFK Moment For Obama On Afghanistan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, President Obama Afghanistan, Cuban Missile Crisis, War in Afghanistan, John F. Kennedy, President Obama, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam, Military-Escalation-Afghanistan, Generals, Jfk, World News

There's the depth of American military involvement, commitment, and the entrenched thinking that Afghanistan is the front line in the war on terrorism. Obama shares this thinking with the generals.

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The Time The President Didn't Intervene

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York

In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy. Landmark bills on education, health care and civil rights were flying through Congress. But he stayed out of New York politics.

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Pain Which Cannot Forget

Trish Kinney | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Kurt Cobain, Barack Obama, Marvin Gaye, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Some people just seem called to help us understand ourselves, no matter what the cost, whether they be musicians or that rare politician or leader who makes us believe in something -- in anything.

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My One and Only Kennedy Funeral

Andrew Cohen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Dead, Senator Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News

The lesson for Ted Kennedy was a simple one: never, ever give up because if you last long enough things can come around.

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Before Jenna: Political Children Working In Media (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

The "Today Show" announced this week that they've hired Jenna Bush (aka Jenna Hager) to file stories for them about once a month. "It wasn't something...

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The True Legacy: The Kennedy Call to Service

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jfk, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Service, Kennedy Service, Kennedy Serve America Act, Freedom Democratic Party, Politics News

Forty eight years after his brother challenged America to ask what we, as citizens, could do for our country, it was left to Teddy to attend the swearing-in of the first African-American President.

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Remembering Ted Kennedy, My Friend of 56 Years

Ted Sorensen | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Ted Kennedy's legacy will live on through the millions of friends he made and nurtured over the years, both in and out of politics, both in and out of the United States, and among all races, religions and nationalities.

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With Passion and Purpose

Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: President John F. Kennedy, Immorality, Edward Kennedy, Intolerance, Integrity, Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

It's curious to reflect on three moments in my life that are marked by the same question: Where were you when Kennedy died?

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Playing Shortstop for the Boston "Ted" Sox

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: John Kennedy, Kennedy Brothers, Refugees, Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, United Nations, Red Sox, India, Bangladesh, World News

Tonight Kennedy will be quietly remembered and honored in thousands of tents, huts and homes of refugees around the world who owe their lives and the lives of their children to his generous devotion to their safety and security.

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The Gift of Ted Kennedy

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ted Kennedy Dead, Norwich-Connecticut, Connecticut, Health Care Reform, Roger Hilsman, President Kennedy, Jfk, President Carter, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Senate, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

He was a terrific campaigner, as I witnessed first hand in several campaigns, including my own father's campaign for Congress in Connecticut in 1972, when Ted made a special point of speaking on my father's behalf to an enthusiastic audience of shipworkers in Norwich.

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Who Will Fill Ted's Shoes In Kennedy Family? (SLIDESHOW POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slidepoll, Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy Jr, Ted Kennedy Family Tree, Kennedy Survivors, Kennedy Siblings, Caroline Kennedy, Kara Kennedy Allen, Joe Kennedy, William Kennedy Smith, Kennedy Family, Robert Kennedy, Kennedy Compound, Kennedy Children, Politics News

With the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the famous family lost its most prominent and powerful member as well as the last surviving brother in an enduri...

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Memories Adjacent to Ted Kennedy

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy, Alaska Politics, Rfk Assassination, Senator Kennedy, Senator Dodd, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Teddy never did endorse Senator Dodd for president, and I can't imagine how that may have hurt him. If it did, he never showed it to his staff -- and so people like me who worked for Dodd briefly bore a grudge that our boss would not.

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HBO Documentary Shows Ted Kennedy's Controversial Career in Soft Focus

Liza Weisberg | Posted 08.11.2009 | Entertainment

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A tender, nostalgic profile of the Camelot clan through the eyes of its youngest member, the documentary plays eerily like a premature eulogy.

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The Upstate Senator That Wasn't

John R. Bohrer | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Robert Morgenthau, Samuel S. Stratton, Kirsten Gillibrand, Charles Buckley, Carolyn Maloney, Robert Kennedy, New York News

Some, if any, will remember Stratton as the dean of the New York congressional delegation about two decades ago. But in the early 1960s, he and Ms. Gillibrand had a lot in common.

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Jackie Kennedy And Bobby Kennedy Had Four-Year Love Affair, New Book Says

NY Post | JEANE MacINTOSH | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

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Jackie Kennedy had a four-year love affair with Bobby Kennedy that began not long after JFK's assassination and grew so intense that when RFK was gunn...

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New York Senate Debacle: The Powerbrokers of 1965 and Pissants of 2009

John R. Bohrer | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York

Read More: Robert F. Wagner Jr., New York Politics, Joseph Zaretzki, Pedro Espada, 2009, New York, Robert F. Kennedy, Jack Bronston, 1965, Hiram Monserrate, New York State Senate, Nelson Rockefeller, Julian Erway, Anthony Travia, Stanley Steingut, Robert Kennedy, Alan Hevesi, New York News

The leadership stalemate of 1965 occurred at the start of the session, when bill expiration deadlines weren't looming. Pedro Espada's defection (facilitated by Hiram Monserrate) flushed months of hard-fought negotiations and legislative footwork down the toilet.

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Can Anyone Restrain Themselves?

Evan Handler | Posted 07.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Politics, Pop Music, Celine Dion, John Kennedy, Farrah Fawcett, Assissination, Robert Kennedy, Death, Michael Jackson Dead, Michael Jackson Death, Michael Jackson Dies, Elvis Presley, Entertainment News

Celine Dion said to Larry King about Michael Jackson's death, "It feels like when Kennedy died, when Elvis Presley died." How could this feel to her like something she never experienced?

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Biloxi Removing FEMA Trailers, Undermining Obama and Victimizing Katrina Survivors

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

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Tiananmen Square to the Berlin Wall; D-Day to Cairo University - the Universal Struggle for Human Rights

Rick Allen | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Rfk, Cairo, Barack Obama, Tiananmen Square, Freedom, Robert Kennedy, World News

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and the crushing of the public manifestations of the pro-democracy movement.

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A Very British Scandal

George Mitrovich | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Public Office, British Parliament, United Kingdom, England, David Cameron, Labor Party, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Robert Kennedy, World News

It appears that most of the 646 MPs underwent an ethical bypass operation, and, in consequence, lost their sense of public duty.

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Celebrities Hit Auction Block for Human Rights

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment

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The online auction will raise funds supporting the RFK Center's vital work around the globe.

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NRDC Gala: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Tom Ford, And More (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Natural Resources Defense Council, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Slideshow, Heather Graham, Leonardo Dicaprio, Cameron Diaz, Lisa Kudrow, Brian Grazer, Robert Kennedy, Rosanna Arquette, Entertainment News

The Natural Resources Defense Council held a 20th anniversary gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills Saturday night. Celebrities who cam...

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Democrats and War Escalation

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Carnegie Endowment, Eugene McCarthy, Ernest Gruening, Liberals, Escalation, Pakistan, Wayne Morse, Tom Hayden, Afghanistan, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Top Democrats and many prominent supporters - with vocal agreement, tactical quibbles or total silence - are assisting the escalation of the U.S. war ...

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