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| - Robert Francis Kennedy (Born November 20, 1925) was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1977, having formerly been the junior United States Senator from New York and the 64th United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he served two terms at a time of immense social change. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Following his brother John's assassination on November 22, 1963, Kennedy continued to serve as Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson for nine months. In September 1964, Kennedy resigned to seek the U.S. Senate seat from New York, which he won in November. Within a few years, he publicly split with Johnson over the Vietnam War. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisors during his presidency. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S. Attorney General. In March 1968, Kennedy began a campaign for the presidency and was a front-running candidate of the Democratic Party. In the California presidential primary on June 4, Kennedy defeated Eugene McCarthy, a fellow U.S. Senator from Minnesota. After a hard-fought campaign extending to the Democratic convention Kennedy managed to narrowly clinch his party's nomination, defeating Republican nominee Richard Nixon in the general election.
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