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| | Kennedy, Robert F :: The Encyclopedia of New York State :: Syracuse University Press |
 | | As senator, Kennedy focused mostly on national issues, such as race relations, poverty, and Vietnam, rather than on narrower New York affairs, but he did lead an effort to develop the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. |
 | | His attempts to revive the sagging fortunes of the Democratic Party in New York State proved less successful. |
 | | An outspoken critic of Pres Lyndon Johnson's foreign and domestic policies, Kennedy sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. |
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