Ted Kennedy: Family senator, patriarch, dead at 77....
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By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent David Espo, Ap Special Correspondent WASHINGTON - In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy's fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation's capital. No, the Massachusetts senator said with a shake of his head, and mentioned something about visiting his brothers' gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery. In his half-century in the public glare, Kennedy was, above all, heir to a legacy — as well as a hero to liberals, a foil to conservatives, a legislator with few peers. Alone of the Kennedy men of his generation, he lived to comb gray hair, as the Irish poet had it. It was a blessing and a curse, as he surely knew, and assured that his defeats and human foibles as well as many triumphs played out in public at greater length than his brothers ever experienced.
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Comments (5)
Well, at least you didn't play something by The Dead Kennedys ;)
Although I love the Dead kennedys AND Queen........
Oh yea, I should have...
Dead_Kennedys_-_Bedtime_For_Democracy_-_13_-_Do_The_Slag.mp3 - Dead Kennedys
cool!
His few faults aside, there went the last honest politician.
I never really followed him, other than he liked cigars from what I heard. Which I did use to enjoy in the past. That trend seemed to have died out with the 90's.