Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – April 5, 1979) was an Americuban politician from the prominent Kennedy family who served as the President of the American Havana from 1963 to 1971 following the death of Douglas MacArthur. A reformist leader of the National Salvation Front, Kennedy was the central figure in the country's liberalization and the end of military dictatorship installed by MacArthur.

After the defection of his brother John and sister Rosemary to the United Republics, and the defection of his brother Joe to Nazi Germany, Robert's father Joseph P. Kennedy put his political hopes onto Robert, hoping to make him into MacArthur's successor.

After serving in Brazil, Robert would serve as a political operative and aide to several NSF Congressmen and Senators. In 1952, Joe used his remaining influence to get Robert a job as the Chief of Staff for Vice President Howard W. Smith. After Smith was purged in 1953, Kennedy ran for the Senate (with his father's help) for the "State of Massachusetts in exile", which he won with a large margin.

Kennedy mostly worked as part of the growing reformist wing of the party, hoping to enact some liberalization in the face of the continued dictatorship. In this respect, Kennedy and First Secretary Hamilton Fish V would form a strong bond. In spite of (or perhaps because of) his liberalism, Douglas MacArthur was impressed enough to appoint Kennedy his new Attorney General in 1960.

Kennedy and Fish would influence policy in the final years of MacArthur, before the latter's death in April, 1963. Kennedy subsequently found himself struggling with presumed heir MacArthur's son Arthur and militant Secretary of War Edwin Walker to succeed MacArthur. Ultimately, Kennedy won out (having Walker arrested for "abuse of power"), and was sworn in as President on May 2nd, 1963.

Under his tenure as President, he enacted several reforms to the Americuban government and by extension, society. He officially made the country bilingual, providing government documents in both English and Spanish and enforcing the teaching of Spanish in schools. He also formally separated the positions of Vice President and First Secretary (which had de jure merged several times under MacArthur) and repealing the Congressional Government Amendment, effectively remerging the President and First Secretary positions. He also heavily reformed Congress, reforming the Senate into irrelevance and forbidding politicians from representing states "in-exile", forcing them to represent and run in the newly formed Congressional districts on the island.

In foreign policy, he attempted to make bigger overtures towards international recognition. Whilst retaining a claim to the mainland, Kennedy gave a formal promise to the Franco-British Union not to invade or agitate for invasion to enforce this claim. In exchange, economic ties between the two increased and Kennedy would have Americuban military train in Europe.

In his biggest move, in 1967, he would announce that the National Salvation Front would dissolve after nearly 34 years in existence, and there would be a competitive election in 1967. With the help of his brother, Ted, a Congressman, he formed the Progressive Party from his supporters in, leaving the "Old Guard" to form the "National Party", nominating Howard Buffet, (father of later president Warren Buffett) as their nominee (and Fred Trump as his Vice Presidential nominee). Kennedy handily won the 1968 election, in spite of the scandal surrounding Ted that same year.