Robert F. Kennedy

John won the election, and Robert became an assistant counsel to Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In 1957, he was promoted to chief of this committee. However, in 1961, Robert became John=s chief advisor on civil rights and a leading counselor on foreign affairs, national security, and domestic policy. Robert, as the Attorney General, seemed to make a difference; he urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue regulations banning segregation on buses, trains, and in terminals and stations. After much convincing, the commission finally passed these laws. Robert was also very successful in helping to remove racial barriers at southern universities and colleges (Lindop 120). Edward Kennedy said, AHe understood the nation=s problems with his mind, and he felt them in his heart.@ (3). .
             Robert Kennedy=s political career had finally stepped into motion, and he was starting to see how his opinions had an influence on many Americans. Unfortunately, his success came to a sudden stop when he learned of President John F. Kennedy=s assassination on November 22, 1963. Robert plunged into a deep depression that lasted for weeks. At his brother's funeral, he quoted, AEven in our sleep, pain which we cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.@ It took time, but he gradually emerged out of this grief-stricken sadness as Americans across the country urged him to continue working for the goals that his brother had set (Lindop 124). He continued serving as Attorney General under Lyndon B. Johnson=s administration for a short period of time. In 1964, he resigned from Attorney General and decided to run for the New York Senate against Senator Kenneth Keating. Although many New Yorkers were opposed to Kennedy=s democratic political ideas, he still received the support of many voters and ended up winning the election by a margin of nearly 720,000 votes (Lindop 126).