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The President had appointed his brother Robert Kennedy as U. S. Attorney General. Critics charged that although Robert was an attorney, he had never tried a case in court. With tongue in cheek the President replied…


The younger Kennedy, as Counsel to a Senate Investigating Committee, had made it his mission to show the infiltration and connection of Hoffa and his Teamsters' Union and organized crime. Despite his relentless questioning and investigation, Robert Kennedy was unable to prove and criminal connections and Hoffa denied that the ever existed. But with RFK as Attorney General, many thought Hoffa would be relentlessly persecuted and that he would be worried. But he never appeared so, and the Attorney General was not able to pin anything on Hoffa.


By 2005 trust of many Muslims of the U. S. government had reached such a low point that loyal American Muslim organizations were recommending total non-cooperation with the FBI which had rounded up and held many loyal American Muslims while they were searching for fundamentalist terrorists. President George W. Bush made some very important speeches explaining that all Muslims were not responsible and the FBI worked hard to establish relationships with Muslim leaders and organizations. After a few years many of the roundup practices had stopped but there was a residual of mistrust thereafter.


Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson
  • Born: December 10, 1952
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Comedy Author, Game Show Host, Barrister, Radio Presenter, Television Presenter

Clive Stuart Anderson is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year legal career, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway? on BBC Radio 4, then later Channel 4. He has also hosted many radio programmes, and made guest appearances on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and QI.