John Kennedy Jr. to Be Justice Dept. Clerk
John F. Kennedy Jr., son of the assassinated President, has taken a summer law clerk’s job in the Justice Department’s civil rights division, headed by Assistant Atty. Gen. William Bradford Reynolds, officials said Thursday.
Reynolds, one of the leading conservatives in the Reagan Administration, made the final decision to hire the son of the liberal Democratic President, Deborah Burstion-Wade, a spokeswoman for the civil rights division, said.
Kennedy’s uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), was among the leaders of a drive in 1985 that blocked Reynolds’ promotion to the department’s No. 3 job of associate attorney general.
The younger Kennedy, a first-year law student at New York University, applied to the attorney general’s honors program, which each year hires some of the “highest-ranking law students in the nation,” Burstion-Wade said.
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