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Asking
Why
Celebrating RFK as AG.
By
NR Editors
From “The Week,” December 17, 2001,
issue, of National Review
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Bush named the Department of Justice building after Robert F. Kennedy.
What aspect of Kennedy's stint as attorney general did Bush wish to
celebrate? Defending the civil rights of blacks in the South less
zealously than the Eisenhower administration? Crusading against the
mobsters who were the friends and patrons of his father and brother?
Robert Kennedy made his mark, not as attorney general, but as a politician,
and his record — as Michael
Knox Beran has pointed out — is mixed, which is not unusual
with people who are passionate and confused. The Kennedy family will
certainly not thank Bush for his favor — they will view it as
only one of the many little perks, along with drug habits and elective
office, they are entitled to. A bad move.
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