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- Birth nameArthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was born on October 15, 1917 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985), NBC White Paper (1960) and The Unfinished Journey of Robert Kennedy (1970). He was married to Alexandra Emmet and Marian Cannon. He died on February 28, 2007 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- SpousesAlexandra Emmet(July 9, 1971 - February 28, 2007) (his death, 2 children)Marian Cannon(August 10, 1940 - November 23, 1970) (divorced, 4 children)
- ChildrenKatharine KindermanChristina SchlesingerAndrew Schlesinger
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964
- His father, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., is also a historian.
- His first wife, Marian Cannon ( Franklin, NH,13 September 1912- 14 October 2017, Cambridge, MA) was an author and painter.
- Served in the OSS during World War II.
- The ignorance/arrogance of New York intellectuals when it comes to politics is beyond belief.
- JFK [John F. Kennedy] attacked conditions because they seemed irrational, RFK [Robert F. Kennedy] because they seemed hateful . . . If JFK saw people living in squalor, it seemed to him totally unreasonable and awful, but he saw it all, as FDR [Franklin D. Roosevelt] would have done, from the outside. RFK had an astonishing capacity to identify himself with the casualties and victims of our society.
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