We were anticipating being able to occupy a public telephone booth in the hall of the Justice Department. And, we had dimes on us. What I remember of the first hour, is sitting on the floor, outside Bobby Kennedy‟s office, chatting with Mary Lovelace. I guess we were the Observers. Frank was at the telephone. We were observing from the hall.
Byron Engle, an able and experienced law enforcement professional—but also head of the old CIA cadre—was named director of a reconstituted Office of Public Safety, again lodged within AID.To recruit bona fide, country police advisers as rapidly as possible, Engle took advantage of early state and city police retirements and began . hiring ex-chiefs and technical specialists from …
I served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) for four years and traveled back to D.C. once a month to consult with a dozen other U.S. Attorneys from around the country on issues that were troubling the AG: domestic terrorism, sentencing disparities, environmental degradation, the death penalty, Native American issues, white collar crime, and federal drug …
In 2000, attorney and syndicated columnist Sidney Zion wrote of his experience as a foot soldier in the Kennedy Justice Department: I worked under Bobby Kennedy as an assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey. I can tell you true that there never was and hopefully never will be an attorney general who more violated the Bill of Rights.
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 assassination in June ...
Kennedy, November 25, 1963. At the time that President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, RFK was at home with aides from the Justice Department. J.
Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Several public institutions jointly honor Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In 1969, the former Woodrow Wilson Junior College, a two-year institution and a constituent campus of the City Colleges of Chicago, was renamed Kennedy–King College.
Concurrently, Kennedy served as the president's personal representative in Operation Mongoose, the post-Bay of Pigs covert operations program established in November 1961 by the president. Mongoose was meant to incite a revolution within Cuba that would result in the downfall of Castro, not Castro's assassination.
FBI file on the RFK assassination. "The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives" – a collection within the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Archives and Special Collections established in 1984. Appearances on C-SPAN. v.
The bill forbade "mail order sale of guns to the very young, those with criminal records and the insane," according to The Oregonian ' s report. S.1592 and subsequent bills, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, paved the way for the eventual passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Robert Francis Kennedy was born outside Boston in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925. He was the seventh of nine children to businessman/politician Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and philanthropist/socialite Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His parents were members of two prominent Irish American families in Boston.
After several years as a small-town lawyer in Alpena, Frank J. Kelley was unexpectedly appointed Michigan’s attorney general at the end of 1961. He never suspected that he would continue to serve until 1999, a national record.
During that time, he worked with everyone from John and Bobby Kennedy to Bill Clinton and jump-started the careers of dozens of politicians and public figures, including U.S. Senator Carl Levin and Governors James Blanchard and Jennifer Granholm. In The People’s Lawyer: The Life and Times of Frank J.
Frank J. Kelley served as Michigan's 50th attorney general. His 37 years in office, from 1962 to 1999, made him both the youngest (37 years old) and oldest (74 years old) attorney general in the state's history, and led to his nickname, the "Eternal General.".
His story shows how a determined public servant, dedicated to the law, can help protect our consumers and help make our world a place that is fairer, with an environment that is cleaner .
The People’s Lawyer chronicles Kelley’s early life as the son of second-generation Irish immigrants, whose father, Frank E. Kelley, started out as a Detroit saloon keeper and became a respected Democratic Party leader. Kelley tells of becoming the first of his family to go to college and law school, his early days as a lawyer in northern Michigan, ...
Kelley frames his work against a backdrop of the social and political upheaval of his times, including the 1967 Detroit riots, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The provision, contained in Title 5 of the U.S. Code, was dubbed the “Bobby Kennedy law” and was designed to prevent federal officials from promoting relatives.
They celebrated the anniversary of the Checkers Speech each year. At Nixon’s urging, Eisenhower appointed Rogers first as Deputy Attorney General in 1953 and then as AG from 1957 to 1961.
Over the course of Watergate, many AGs fell. Presidential co-conspirators were convicted; the ones who stood up to Nixon were fired. The one who did his bidding was later “Borked,” and the one who came in to try to clean up the mess only lasted a year. There was also a caretaker at DOJ (Richard Kleindienst) whose own resignation from the AG post was eclipsed by the firing of White House Counsel John Dean. Dean later pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud the United States. [26]
Sally Yates served as acting AG for the first ten days of the Trump Administration. In that cameo appearance, she made two deft moves. She visited the White House and warned them about security issues involving National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who later pleaded guilty in Mueller’s Russia investigation. Her fireable offense was her refusal to defend Trump’s travel ban in the courts: “insubordination.” [58] She then had the audacity to testify before Congress about her interactions with the White House on this issue. In that setting, Politico cited Yates as “the face of institutional resistance.” [59]
Rogers’s primary objective throughout his time as Dwight Eisenhower’s AG was to get Vice President Richard Nixon elected President. Both his workday and after-hours time was devoted to that end. Indeed, whenever Nixon was running for office, Rogers rode on his campaign train (1952, 1960, and 1968). [2]
When Sessions stepped aside, leading to the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller, “ [T]he president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him … the way he believed Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general, had done for his brother.”.
When Nixon was eventually elected President a decade later, he named Rogers as his Secretary of State. The men treasured and tended their friendship over the years, as was plainly seen in their New Year’s Eve celebration aboard the “Spirit of ’76,” Nixon’s nickname for Air Force One, in 1971.