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Kennedy Jr. speaks on foreign policy at the Nixon library

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lays out his foreign policy platform during a speech Wednesday night at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.

LOS ANGELES — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told an Orange County audience Wednesday night that America faces an existential threat because of its insistence on behaving like an imperial power rather than the moral leader it should be in the world.

The independent presidential candidate said he would reverse the nation's "decay" by cutting the U.S. military budget by half in his first three years in office — with additional reductions in the future — and using the savings to bolster domestic programs and the economy.

"In the end, we're going to have a stronger, smarter, better-targeted national defense," Kennedy said. "If we use those savings

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