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Ted Kennedy Death Tips Dominoes in Senate Leadership
By Patricia MurphyThe emotional impacts of Sen. Ted Kennedy's death are hard to quantify, but the question of who will lead his old committee was answered Wednesday. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) will take the reins of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, which Kennedy chaired. Harkin has been a ...
Boston Cardinal Answers Critics of Kennedy Funeral
By David GibsonBoston Cardinal Sean O'Malley quietly absorbed a lot of criticism from the right for presiding at last Saturday's funeral for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy because of Kennedy's longstanding support for abortion rights. Throughout the service it was unclear what O'Malley was thinking or how he was feeling ...
Kennedy Memoir: Chappaquiddick Actions 'Inexcusable'
By Cliff FosterThe late Sen. Edward Kennedy expressed remorse over the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, said he accepted the findings of the Warren Commission, and told Bill Clinton he would stand by him after the former president confessed to his affair with Monica Lewinsky, according to Kennedy's soon-to-be released ...
Dear Vicki, I Know You Can Do This
By Bonnie GoldsteinPolitical wives in general have a very tough job, and Kennedy wives are legendary in their public and private political legerdemain. The sisters, nieces and daughters of Jack, Bobby and Ted have had enormous public impact and have done some great work, but I have to say, women who marry Kennedys are ...
Ted Kennedy's Letter to Pope Benedict: Angling for an Amicus Brief to St. Peter
By Melinda HennebergerTed Kennedy must have known that even on the occasion of his death, vast armies of armchair St. Peters would carry on arguing that the gates of Heaven should be slammed shut on his fingers -- fearless as ever in their willingness to test whether Jesus really meant that "with the judgment you ...
Sunday Rewind: Ted Kennedy's First 'Meet the Press'
By Patricia MurphyAs a part of the "Meet the Press" hour-long look at Sen. Ted Kennedy's legacy, host David Gregory shared Kennedy's first-ever appearance on the program more than 45 years ago. On March 11, 1962, Kennedy, who had not yet declared his candidacy for his older brother's former Senate seat, fielded ...
Edward M. Kennedy: A Lion is Laid to Rest
By Carl M. CannonAt eight p.m. under a setting August sun, Edward Kennedy joined his brothers John and Robert at rest in Arlington National Cemetery. In that hallowed place, the flame burns eternally, as it does in the hearts of the millions who loved him. Their hope now is that the great American senator, orator, ...
Ted Kennedy to Pope Benedict: 'I am writing with deep humility...'
By David GibsonAs if Ted Kennedy didn't have enough Catholic mojo going his way after today's funeral mass in Boston, the burial at Arlington this evening held another surprise: The contents of a moving exchange of letters between Kennedy and Pope Benedict XVI -- correspondence that touched on Kennedy's deep faith ...
Edward Kennedy: His Funeral and Busy Afterlife
By David GibsonTeddy Kennedy was memorialized at a solemn funeral Mass on Saturday in Boston in a service reminiscent of the way Kennedy spent his days on Earth: bringing together disparate elements of the America's political and social worlds, flummoxing his foes and inspiring his more numerous admirers – ...
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