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DemocratSinceBirth

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11. My mom took me to the front of a rope line in 1964 when RFK was running for the U S Senate.

Reply to niyad (Reply #10)

Tue May 19, 2015, 10:11 PM

May 2015

I got to shake his hand. Somewhere in storage I have a letter from RFK in response to a letter I sent him when I was ten in 1968. I also have a letter from Ted Kennedy from 1980.

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