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Edward Kennedy Tributes: The President, Former Presidents and Others

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: "Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy. For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore his name and...

Kennedy’s Legacy: The Fight Continues

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At the end of his days, the bickering among his colleagues and uninformed opposition to reforming our crippled health care system must have broken Ted Kennedy's heart.

 

In the Senate and On the Left, Who Will Take Teddy’s Place? (And in What Lifetime?)

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This is not a day for harsh words, if there ever is, but the simple fact is that there is no successor to the man President Obama just called "the greatest United States Senator of our time.''

There is no...

Ted Kennedy: A Life and Legacy in Boldface

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In a time when so many public figures are small, Ted Kennedy was big....

Edward M. Kennedy: The Dream Never Did Die

Edward Moore Kennedy, forever known to the world as Teddy, the unsteady heir of two martyred brothers who matured into a liberal titan of the Senate, a politician who embarrassingly failed in his quest for the presidency but left behind a 46-year legislative record that presidents might envy, died...

Ted Kennedy From the Middle Distance

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In 1980, I was 3 years old, Washington, D.C., was home and my father had been on the road an unmerciful 285 days out of the previous 365 working on the Kennedy presidential campaign. "Teddy" had become a word of...

Ted Kennedy: It’s the Legacy, Stupid

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We live in an age of holograms, when image and myth seem to be all that matter. For years Ted Kennedy had become something of a joke. Literally.

 

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“Teddy Was Your Senator, Too”

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I was born right before the dawn of Camelot and was too young to remember when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I was becoming politically aware when Robert F. Kennedy was...

Ted Kennedy Was Just a Man

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If you click on any Edward Kennedy story on Politics Daily today, you will see above the headline a new graphic "Remembering Senator Kennedy" with a flattering picture of him.

In the almost four months of...

Ted Kennedy’s Real Legacy on Women’s Health

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Even near the end, Ted Kennedy was still thinking about the nitty-gritty details of health care reform legislation. He spent some of his final weeks lobbying for an appointed temporary successor to his Senate seat...

Mary Jo Kopechne and Chappaquiddick: America’s Selective Memory

It was just car accident, really, albeit one involving alcohol, excessive speed, and the late-night machinations of a married man partying with an unmarried woman. Although traffic fatalities happen all-too-frequently in this country, the reverberations of this one reached far beyond the families of the driver who escaped without...

Obama to Deliver Eulogy at Kennedy Funeral

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The Boston Globe reports that President Obama will deliver a eulogy at Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral on Saturday at The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston. The service will be invitation only, but is certain to be broadcast to the nation.

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