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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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Published: 08/26/09

Ted Kennedy Was Just a Man

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
Ted Kennedy Was Just a Man

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 Politics Daily's existence, I have never seen another story on the site honored with a special graphic. And here were seven -- seven! -- stories at my last count at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, on a topic with no new developments other than that the man is still dead. ...

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