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Bush to Name Justice Dept. BUILDING After Kennedy - DRUDGE BLOWS IT BIG TIME
ABC News ^ | 11/16/01

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.

Copyright 2001 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


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To: Benjamin Dover
There are certain people on this forum who cannot wait to find fault with anything President Bush does.

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."

61 posted on 11/16/2001 7:52:04 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Bush is naming a building, not the department, after Kennedy.

Exactly. Although the Department of Justice will also be renamed to the Ministry of Love (MINILOV) next week.

62 posted on 11/16/2001 7:56:02 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: 11th Earl of Mar; Howlin
Bush is naming a building, not the department, after Kennedy. It looks like Drudge has started using DEBKA's sources.

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?

Click Here - See Earl Crash & Burn

63 posted on 11/16/2001 8:03:00 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
There's nothing like martyrdom to cover up even the most checkered past. It's one of the many reasons some of us pray(ed) for Bill Clinton's safety each night.
64 posted on 11/16/2001 8:08:36 PM PST by borkrules
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To: stilts
"If this is blowing it big time"

Drudge did not blow it "big time" with this
What he did blow big time was when HE was responsible for the begining of the 2000 election recount nightmare.
See my post 49 for detailed account.
I don't hate Drudge, but I do not like those who meddle with the voting process.
65 posted on 11/16/2001 8:10:31 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: stilts
Correction see my post 48, not 50
66 posted on 11/16/2001 8:15:30 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: Conservobabe
If I can take a tangent from your post.........

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.

67 posted on 11/16/2001 8:17:20 PM PST by breakem
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
You mean compared to THESE Breaking News Stories currently in that section:

I mean compared to and including anything that isn't breaking news.

68 posted on 11/16/2001 8:18:55 PM PST by americalost
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To: oldvike
I stopped paying attention to that oddball Drudge the day he took the Free Republic link off his website.

Hey now that you mention it...why is that?

69 posted on 11/16/2001 8:26:48 PM PST by americalost
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To: Miss Marple
This is a pathetic gesture on President Bush's part. Why not name it after John Mitchell ? At least he was a Republican crook, instead of a Democratic crook like Bobby.

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.

70 posted on 11/16/2001 8:50:05 PM PST by kristinn
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To: Savage Beast
Does this mean we can have a Marylin Monroe School of Forensic Investigation at Quantico?
71 posted on 11/16/2001 8:50:27 PM PST by Liberty Ship
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To: Miss Marple
#53 is the funniest response on here! But that aside, I also wonder what we got in trade for this little symbolic gesture. We may not know for some time....
72 posted on 11/16/2001 9:10:45 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: overseer5
I've heard they're both "friends of Bill W. i.e. in recovery in the same "program"!
73 posted on 11/16/2001 9:56:47 PM PST by oldlizzie
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To: Liberty Ship
Oh, please don't speak ill of Marilyn. She was so sweet.
74 posted on 11/16/2001 10:02:16 PM PST by Savage Beast
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
It will be lost on most FReepers--who're too young to remember--that the OLDER Kennedy Bros. in their heyday--the early- to mid-60s--were politically right of center. Today, they'd be ideological Republicans.

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!

75 posted on 11/16/2001 10:38:09 PM PST by Illbay
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Wait. . . Wait. . . Don't tell me. . . Lemme guess: Tommorow's DRUDGE REPORT will say . . .

"Bush to name Education Department after Barny Frank"!!!

76 posted on 11/16/2001 10:43:10 PM PST by GeekDejure
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
I've just sent the following to Matt:

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]

77 posted on 11/16/2001 11:03:19 PM PST by Silly
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To: VA Advogado
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.".

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.

78 posted on 11/16/2001 11:36:26 PM PST by dread78645
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To: Uncle Bill
my grandaddy yer daddy, I got yer back on this bobby thing.
79 posted on 11/17/2001 4:04:57 AM PST by IRtorqued
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To: Conservobabe
Robert Kennedy went after his family's enemies...and left their mob friends alone.

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.

80 posted on 11/17/2001 4:23:49 AM PST by putupon
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