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20. FULL CIRCLE: THE TWINNING OF BARACK OBAMA AND JOHN KENNEDY.

1. Joseph A. Loftus, "U.S. Tells World of Rights Strife: Attorney General Foresees a Negro as President," New York Times, May 27, 1961.

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13. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Mary Kerry Kennedy endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. See Jeff Zeleny and Carl Hulse, "Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Plea by Clintons," New York Times, January 28, 2010.

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