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...Having been introduced on Tuesday as Robert Kennedy Jr’s running mate, Shanahan’s life will now be turned inside out. RFK’s third-party candidacy could split the vote in key swing states....
...Robert Armstrong is the FT’s US financial commentator and writes the Unhedged newsletter...
...Jimmy Carter was partly undone in 1980 by the bid by Ted Kennedy, RFK Jr’s uncle. George HW Bush was harmed by Pat Buchanan’s pitchfork rebellion in 1992....
...Kissinger had easy access to every president, whether they were Democratic, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Biden, or the Republicans George Bush Sr and Jr, and Donald Trump....
...During his leadership of the Pentagon, Robert McNamara, the ultimate genius/sucker, fought the Vietnam war as a hedge fund quant might....
...Robert Kennedy Jr, a scion of the famed US political dynasty and nephew of the late former president John F Kennedy, has been running for president as an independent for several months, as has Cornel West...
...All the more surprising, then, that this stock but sturdy war movie proves to be Ritchie’s best work since the Sherlock Holmes films he made a decade ago with Robert Downey Jr. That may be a low bar....
...The money from Trinity allowed Quendon to extend its lease on The Holme and make more loans to Prince Khaled, Quendon said in court papers....
...Then there’s the conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr. Biden will crush him in the Democratic primaries....
...Robert O’Brien, the former national security adviser who has continued to praise Trump, may well be in the mix for a top job....
...And yet Robert Kennedy Jr is running against Biden, to the dismay, I might say, of the rest of the Kennedy family. So those connections continue....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in April that “CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny”....
...Here, George Kyriakos, the FT’s watches and jewellery editor, gives us an insight into what drives the obsession....
...President Joe Biden and his rival for the Democratic nomination, Robert F Kennedy Jr, along with South Carolina’s former Republican governor Nikki Haley have also toured the Bay Area in the past two weeks...
...The Politician (Head of Zeus, £20) is the latest in his Bristol-based series featuring DS George Cross of Avon and Somerset Police....
...Roberts skilfully turns the mood at the end, delivering his late speeches with gravity and bittersweet regret....
...It shows a family on an apartment building rooftop, the cityscape and the George Washington Bridge in the background....
...“You’ve given me a tough assignment,” Vern Underwood Jr says when I ask how Americans originally bought in. Underwood Jr is now 83. “Everyone I know related to Cuervo going way back is dead.”...
...It claims Robert Downey Jr as a neighbour, but most folks would hardly know the estate is even there. Sprawling compounds are common in this billionaire’s playground some 100 miles east of Manhattan....
...They also forget that the original independent prosecutor, Robert Fiske Jr, had cleared the Clinton White House of illegal interference and ruled that there had been no foul play in the suicide of Vince...
...He has campaigned with Donald Trump Jr and will hold a rally on Saturday with Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican lawmaker from Georgia....
...And pop painter Robert Rauschenberg said he decided to become an artist on sight of “The Blue Boy”....
...Any temptation to jape around too much — by adding a kazoo solo to Lou Reed’s “Rooftop Garden”, say, or singing Robert Wyatt’s “Sea Song” in the style of Finding Nemo — has been successfully resisted....
...Meanwhile, the architects of the mega-deal, KKR’s Henry Kravis and George Roberts, began a rapid ascent, creating one of the most formidable financial empires Wall Street has seen and leaving a $4tn investment...
...Previously classified government documents released on Tuesday show that George Robertson, defence secretary in the Blair government, harshly castigated the then foreign secretary Robin Cook in a letter...
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