Posted on 11/16/2001 5:16:38 PM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush next week is expected to name the Justice Department headquarters after Robert F. Kennedy, a Democratic U.S. attorney general and brother of former President John Kennedy.
"He is expected to sign a document essentially dedicating the Justice Department building for Robert F. Kennedy," a White House official said on Friday. The official had no further information on the decision.
But Newsweek magazine said Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft would hold the renaming ceremony on Tuesday, on what would have been the assassinated New York Democratic senator and presidential candidate's 76th birthday.
Kennedy served as U.S. attorney general to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, then became a U.S. senator and was campaigning for the White House himself when he was gunned down by Sirhan Sirhan on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles after winning the California primary.
There have been unsuccessful efforts in Congress to name the building after Kennedy.
While serving as attorney general from 1961 to 1964, Kennedy gained a reputation for doggedly pursuing organized crime leaders. Ashcroft last month cited that reputation in pledging a similar effort against terrorism.
Newsweek magazine reported on its Internet site that several generations of Kennedys would attend a dedication ceremony.
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Renaming a building is an unimportant nicety. It makes the Kennedy's less apt to go for the jugular, it costs nothing, and few people will ever say..."I'm going over to Kennedy." They will still say "I'm going over to Justice."
Exactly. Although the Department of Justice will also be renamed to the Ministry of Love (MINILOV) next week.
Nice try you Drudge basher. Anyone with a first grade IQ will see that Drudge cited the Roemer legislation which specifically does the following:
"An amendment to name the Department of Justice Building at 10th and Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC, the "Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building.".
Maybe Drudge should require an IQ test before he lets you near his website?
RFK had a real hard on for Carlos Marcello, New Orleans mafia head. Justice could not get him in court. One day three agents from Justice took Marcello into custody when he came out of a building in NO. They flew him to, I think, Guatamala and released himin the mountains without any money.
Eventually, he got down to a city and worked his way back home.
I mean compared to and including anything that isn't breaking news.
Hey now that you mention it...why is that?
The least he could do would be to name it after an Attorney General who actually obeyed the law while in office and upheld the Constitution.
Ted Kennedy himself didn't turn "lib" until after Bobby's death. His handlers convinced him he "owed it" to his dead brothers' legacies to embrace the "civil rights" movement which grew into the obscenity that we know today, taking all those people with it.
Bobby Kennedy as I recall was one h*ll of an A.G.--and the mobsters knew it, and trembled!
"Bush to name Education Department after Barny Frank"!!!
drudge@drudgereport.com
SUBJECT LINE: "Not the DEPT, dumbsh-t, the BUILDING"
Matt,
Can you PLEASE fix your stupid headline? Bush is not naming the Justice DEPT after a Kennedy. He is naming the Justice BUILDING after a Kennedy.
What, are you getting your news from DEBKA? Get a clue and correct your mistake.
You owe me an acknowledgement of this, by the way, for helping you stop looking stupid for longer than you already did. They even know about this on FreeRepublic.
[signed]
Yep, you called it correctly.
But i think Drudge was trying to stir-up some shi+ when he put the Ted "stay-here-I'll-go-for-help" Kennedy image above the home-page headline.
Bobby boy went after the Kennedy's enemies and friends, namely the mob. After the mob got Johnny the presidency with the help of Daly and all the dead Chicago voters, Bobby reniged on the deal which caused Johnny to get what usually happens to those who cross the mob. Remember, the drag queen LEO Hoover refused to even admit the mob existed untill Bobby went on his anti mafia jihad while attorney general. BTW, no real honor there, just a cheap populist political show. The Kennedys have been in bed with the mob since before Joe even thought of fathering that collection of dirtballs he called his children, and la cosa nostra was offended when they tried to act like they weren't the scumbags they are.
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