CTPR 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethel Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, Tet Offensive
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7th child of the kennedy"s: most buttoned up and religious. Married to ethel kennedy and had 10 kids. Hard nose, tough, can-do guy: did all the dirty work behind jfk presidency. Served on mccarthy"s committee: hard on communism. Jfk made him attorney general o o. Jfk could remain the man of the people while robert do most of the dirty work. Responsible for taking on the director of the fbi. Hoover used to have control but now had to go to robert first. Cuban missile crisis: his entire life and political career was devoted to his brother and his re-election campaign, helped solve it. Went to the poorest places around america and learned about poverty in america: he went down to these small areas and spent months with these people o o. Trying to figure out why america was a family of have"s and have not"s. Extremely interesting because he came from one of the richest families in the world.
