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and as a speechwriter for

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. He had also been the 1970 nominee for

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by the Democratic Party. He criticized

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's efforts to claim

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as a political conservative saying that Kennedy had moved to the left near the end of his life. In 2016 he endorsed

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in large part due to concerns the Democratic Party had become too supportive of war. Walinsky died in November 2023.

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