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Rogers was succeeded as Attorney-General by whom?

  • Robert F. Kennedy

  • John N. Mitchell

  • Elliot Richardson

  • Edwin Meese

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Robert F. Kennedy took office as the Attorney-General after Rogers resigned in 1961, Kennedy, brother of the newly-elected President John F Kennedy, had served as the campaign manager and the United States Attorney General during his brother’s presidency. Kennedy’s time in office was marked by a focus on civil rights and organized crime, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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