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Robert Kennedy and Israel

(Marco Island Sun Times) Carol Glassman - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert Kennedy's eldest daughter, who was Maryland's first female lieutenant governor, told a Florida audience: "I might not be here if it weren't for Israel. My father had a crush on my mother's sister originally. Then his father decided he needed some experience as a journalist. He went to Israel to cover the War of Independence for the Boston Post in 1948, and when he returned, my aunt was engaged to someone else. So he married my mother." Townsend said Robert Kennedy had been impressed with the strength of Jewish freedom fighters, seeing Israel as "a truly great model for the birth of a nation in courage and dignity."
2004-02-06 00:00:00
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