Wed Jun 21, 2023 – 7:27 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Rising star Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has earned significant favorability against incumbent Joe Biden since he launched his left-field candidacy in April, argued for peace and de-escalation amid rising tensions with Russia in a speech heavily referencing the policies advanced by his uncle, former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
During a 30-minute address at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on Tuesday, author, environmental lawyer, and well-known vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy told his audience that, together, “we can restore America to the awesome vitality of the original Kennedy era” through de-escalation and trust-building.
“As in my uncle’s time, nuclear tensions are at an extreme and dangerous level,” Kennedy said, harkening back to JFK’s “Peace Speech” given at American University in Washington, D.C. in June 1963.
In the speech, the former president (who was assassinated just months later in November 1963), urged Americans living amid Cold War era tensions with Soviet Russia to recognize areas of commonality with the Russians — despite seeing communism as “profoundly repugnant” — in order to avoid holding a “distorted and desperate view of the other side.”
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