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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Pete Curran remembers working for and meeting with Robert F. Kennedy during the '68 Presidential campaign

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Ed.

I have dug up some more documents from the Pete Curran archives about Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Pete wrote a four page memo on working for RFK and also meeting with JFK and Teddy Kennedy.  It is pretty fascinating.  Pete talked to Bobby on the phone (with Jim Whitaker and a couple of other people) about an hour before he was assassinated in June '68.  

Bobby, earlier in that year, sent Pete a signed and inscribed copy of his recent book "To Seek A Newer World."  I am guessing that this book was lost over the years (?) because Pete would have shown it to me, knowing I was a big RFK fan. 

In the course of the memo he  describes meeting various Kennedy friends and staff like Jim Whittaker (first American to climb Everest); Pierre Salinger; Pat Lawford and Jean Kennedy (whose name he didn't seem to remember); and David Burke (Teddy's aide). 

Finally, he describes meeting with Teddy Kennedy in April 1968:  "He is a far more outgoing and personable individual than either John or Bob were..."

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