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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 1. 1965.

[introduction]

While still a United States Senator from Massachusetts the late President John F. Kennedy said, "Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow my brother Bobbv would run for my seat in the Senate and if Bobby died Teddv would take over for him."

Senator Robert F. Kennedy has apparently decided to apply these words to his brother's final job, the United States Presidency—and he has an excellent chance of achieving this. ambition by the 1970's. By then Mr. Kennedy, although still in his forties, will probably have qualifications for the position of Chief Executive that no other American can match.

During almost four years as the United States Attorney-General he has appointed men of exceptional ability to the senior posts in his department, taken stronger action than any of his predecessors to ensure equal rights for negroes and other minority groups, been largely responsible for America's strongest Civil Rights Act of the century, and fought with much success crime and corruption in the country's Unions.