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Published: 09/3/09

Teddy Kennedy's Memoir: He Spent His Life Atoning for Kopechne's Death

By  Melinda Henneberger - Politics Daily
Teddy Kennedy's Memoir: He Spent His Life Atoning for Kopechne's Death

"Atonement is a process that never ends.'' – Edward M. Kennedy in his forthcoming memoir, "True Compass.'' Even the quick summary of Teddy Kennedy's new memoir in Thursday's New York Times contains about 12 different headlines. But because we all, like the book's author, are only human, the absolute top of the news from the 532-page tome is that Kennedy says he barely knew poor Mary Jo Kopechne, and had not been carrying on with her on the night she died, or any other time. ...

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