Nation: No. 2

In his office at the Justice Department late one night last week, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, tie loose and hair tousled, slumped back in his chair and propped a foot up on his desk. "Let's see," he joked, "what am I doing? I've got so many jobs I can't remember." Bobby Kennedy's confusion was understandable enough. What his jobs, both official and unofficial, really added up to was a place second only to the President as the most powerful figure in the U.S. Government.

Throughout the week, Robert Francis Kennedy spent his mornings and afternoons as a member of a four-man panel,...

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