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A memorial to Edward Kennedy at the John F Kennedy presidential library and museum in Boston.
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EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator fromMassachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in November 1962, he was elected nine times and served for 46 years in the U.S. Senate. At the time of his death, he was the second most senior member of the Senate, and the third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassinations, and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.
Kennedy entered the Senate in a 1962 special election to fill the seat once held by his brother John. He was elected to a full six-year term in 1964 and was reelected seven more times. The 1969 Chappaquiddick incident resulted in the death of automobile passenger Mary Jo Kopechne; Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and the incident significantly damaged his chances of ever becoming President of the United States. His one attempt, in the 1980 U.S. presidential election, resulted in a primary campaign loss to incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter.
Kennedy was known for his oratorical skills; his 1968 eulogy for his brother Robert and his 1980 Democratic National Convention rallying cry for modern American liberalism were among his best-known speeches. He became known as "The Lion of the Senate" through his long tenure and influence. More than 300 bills that Kennedy and his staff wrote were enacted into law. He was a proud liberal who believed government can and should play a role to make America a moreeconomically just society, but was also known for working with Republicans to find compromises among senators with disparate views. Kennedy played a major role in passing many laws, including laws addressing immigration, cancer research, health insurance, apartheid, disability discrimination, AIDS care, civil rights, mental health benefits, children's health insurance, education and volunteering. In the 2000s, he led several unsuccessful immigration reform efforts. Over the course of decades, Kennedy's "cause of my life" was the enactment of universal health care, which he continued to work toward during the Obama administration.
In May 2008, Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor which limited his appearances in the Senate. He died on August 25, 2009, at his home in Hyannis Port,
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Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy, the brother of former President John F Kennedy, has died at 77, after a long battle with a brain tumour.
He became a Democratic Massachusetts senator in 1962, replacing his brother when he resigned to become president, and was re-elected seven times.
Senator Kennedy was a dominant force in US politics for almost 50 years.
President Barack Obama, of whom he was an active supporter, said he was "heartbroken" to hear of his death.
"An important chapter in our history has come to an end," he said in a statement.
"Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States senator of our time."
Later, in a televised tribute, Mr Obama described him as one of the "most accomplished Americans to serve our democracy".
Senator Kennedy had championed issues such as education and healthcare, central to Mr Obama's first term.
In 2006, Time magazine named him as one of America's "Ten Best Senators", saying that he had "amassed a titanic record of legislation affecting the lives of virtually every man, woman and child in the country".
The BBC's Richard Lister in Washington says Senator Kennedy, known affectionately as Teddy, will be remembered as one of the most effective and popular legislators in American history.
Our correspondent says he was also skilled at forging alliances across party lines: pushing an education initiative with President George W Bush, and immigration reform with Republican John McCain.
But he was a fierce critic of the Bush administration, in particular over Iraq and the prisoner abuse scandal.
He will also be remembered as a staunch supporter of Irish Republicanism - at one time calling for British troops to leave Northern Ireland - although he was later involved in the peace process leading to the Good Friday Agreement.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said the Kennedy family and the Senate had "together lost our patriarch".
"The liberal lion's mighty roar may now fall silent, but his dream shall never die," he said.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Senator Kennedy would be "mourned not just in America but in every continent".
"Even facing illness and death, he never stopped fighting for the causes which were his life's work.
"I am proud to have counted him as a friend."
'Joyous light'
Dawn broke over Washington's Capitol building, the home of the Senate, with the US flag flying at half mast.
The Kennedy family announced Senator Kennedy's death in a brief statement in the early hours of Wednesday.
"Edward M Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts)," the statement said.
"We've lost the irreplaceable centre of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever."
Edward Kennedy was the only one of four brothers not to die a violent death.
His brother Joseph was killed in an air crash in World War II, and both President John F Kennedy and presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy were assassinated in the 1960s.
He was widely expected to be the next Kennedy in the White House, but he was never able to fully overcome the scandal caused in 1969, when he drove a car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick near his home, killing his female passenger.
The incident helped derail his only presidential bid, more than a decade later.
But he remained active in politics right up until his death, famously endorsing Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination during a tight race with Hillary Clinton last year.
At his death, he was the third longest serving senator in US history.
Last week, he asked the Massachusetts governor to change state law to allow a speedy succession when his Senate seat became vacant.
Analysts suggest that Senator Kennedy feared a lengthy gap could deny Democrats a crucial vote on Mr Obama's flagship health reform.
His death comes weeks after that of his older sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, on 11 August.
US MEDIA REACTION TO TED KENNEDY'S DEATH" Kennedy was at the center of the most important issues facing the nation for decades, and he did much to help shape them. A defender of the poor and politically disadvantaged, he set the standard for his party on health care, education, civil rights, campaign-finance reform and labor law"
Joe Holley writes in The Washington Post on Ted Kennedy's political importance
"He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of white hair, his florid, oversize face, his booming Boston brogue, his powerful but pained stride. He was a celebrity, sometimes a self-parody, a hearty friend, an implacable foe, a man of large faith and large flaws, a melancholy character who persevered, drank deeply and sang loudly. He was a Kennedy." New York Times journalist John M Broder describes the Kennedy effect.
"Seared in my memory: When I interned at the Heritage Foundation, I would pop into Mass at Saint Joseph's on the Hill. And I would almost always find myself sitting near Ted Kennedy. He's responsible for things that are deeply offensive to my conscience and diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Catholic faith, and he probably led some people astray by his example. But our faith also teaches that we are all sinners and that there is redemption. He had some incredibly good forces in his life, not least among them his sister, Eunice, who just died. I pray for the repose of his soul. R.I.P. Senator Kennedy. " Kathryn Lean Lopez blogs her tribute at the National Review.
"Elected first in 1962, the 77-year-old Massachusetts liberal was rooted in the civil rights and Great Society battles of that decade, but his enduring strength was an ability to renew himself through his mastery of issues and the changing personalities of the Senate. Nowhere was this clearer than in Kennedy's early support of Barack Obama in 2008, when the young Illinois Democrat needed to establish himself against more veteran rivals for the White House. Kennedy not only campaigned for Obama but, at risk to his own health, opened the Democratic National Convention a year ago in Denver and returned to Washington repeatedly last winter to cast needed votes to move the new president's economic recovery agenda." David Rogers in Politico highlights the veteran senator's lasting political importance.
"In many ways, he was the last man standing, straddling a mythic family mantle of fame and a vaunted career of political service, all the while wearing the crown of Camelot decades after its heyday...the senator's death brought to a close a storied political era - of assassinations, Jackie O, Palm Beach, Chappaquiddick - and a lifetime of both tragedy and public service." Andrea Billup writes in the The Washington Times that 'Camelot' fades with Kennedy passing
"In losing Kennedy, Obama loses a key Senate dealmaker at a crucial moment in legislative negotiations over the health care bill. Though an icon of Democratic liberalism, Kennedy was known to colleagues as a jovial pragmatist, whose many friendships with colleagues across the political and ideological spectrum made him one of the Senate's most influential players." Kathy Kiely in USA Today examines the impact of Ted Kennedy's death on healthcare reform.
But the praise was coming from right across the political divide. The Republicans were also praising him, saying that he was the kind of man that you couldn't help but like even if you disagreed with him.
That kind of praise has been echoing across the morning shows - they all broke into special coverage of the kind that is normally reserved for when former presidents die.
But of course all of the coverage has also included the controversies in Edward Kennedy's life, not least of all the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick bridge in 1969.
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Edward M. Kennedy came to Washington following the trail blazed by his older brothers, John and Robert. He became a Senator for Massachusetts in 1962, elected to fill the vacancy left by John's election as president, and held the position until his death, on Aug. 25, 2009.
On May 17, 2008, Mr. Kennedy suffered a seizure and was airlifted to a Boston hospital, where doctors discovered a malignant tumor in his brain.
After undergoing an operation for brain cancer at the Duke University Medical Center in June, he managed to make a rousing speech at the Democratic convention in Denver but faded more and more from view afterwards.
In July, 2009 as a divided Senate tangled over health care legislation, there was bipartisan consensus on one point: Ted Kennedy could make a big difference, if only he were here. Mr. Kennedy, battling brain cancer, had not been on Capitol Hill since April. Colleagues routinely lamented his absence, which had been especially painful to Mr. Kennedy, the committee chairman, who had spent much of his career trying to expand health coverage. People close to Mr. Kennedy marveled at how his fight for his life could coincide so dramatically with what may be the culminating summer of his life's cause.
As his health declined, Mr. Kennedy became more of an inspirational leader than a tangible one. He turned over his day-to-day committee duties to Mr. Dodd in the spring. Mr. Dodd called him on July 14 to tell him the health committee, known as HELP, would pass the health bill - whose centerpiece is a government-run insurance plan - the next day. "I called about 8:15, and he was already asleep," Mr. Dodd said. Mr. Kennedy called back at 7 a.m. the next morning sounding thrilled.
"Just bellowing with joy," Mr. Dodd said, "as excited as I've heard him in a long time."
Mr. Kennedy's enthusiasm was in keeping with his reputation as one of the last lions of liberalism, a full-throated defender of the policies the Democratic party pursued in the 1960's and 1970's. But within the Senate he had a reputation as one of the most effective members at building bipartisan coalitions.
When President Bush's No Child Left Behind bill was floundering in 2001, it was Mr. Kennedy he turned to and who saw it into law. In 2007, with the bill's renewal stalled, it was Mr. Kennedy Mr. Bush turned to again, despite bitter disagreements in the years in between on a wide range of issues, most notably the war in Iraq, which Mr. Kennedy opposed. When the Senate that spring seemed poised to pass a bipartisan bill on immigration, one of the names on it was Kennedy's.
In a family synonymous with tragedy, Mr. Kennedy had his share of woes, many of which were self-inflicted. The car accident in Chappaquiddick in 1969 in which a young woman drowned permanently stained his reputation for many voters; his only bid for the presidency, a 1980 primary challenge, was easily turned back by President Jimmy Carter. In 1991, with his poll ratings among the lowest in Congress, he issued a public apology for his personal shortcomings. In 1994, after having divorced and remarried, and with a new sense of energy and determination, he bounced back to defeat Mitt Romney and hold onto his Senate seat. He never faced a serious challenge again, and at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston, he was cheered and celebrated as the party's patriarch.
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February 22, 2009usNewsSenator Kennedy Has a Malignant Brain Tumor
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May 21, 2008washingtonNewsKennedy, Never a Nominee, Finds a Triumph in Boston
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July 27, 2004usNewsFacing Questions of Private Life, Kennedy Apologizes to the Voters
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A list of resources from around the Web about Edward M. Kennedy as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.
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Times Articles By Edward M. Kennedy
- A Grotesque Portrait of Our Parents
- By Jean Kennedy Smith, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Edward M. Kennedy, Dec. 3, 1992
- Stop U.N.-Bashing
- By Edward M. Kennedy, June 6, 1988
- America Needs A Literacy Corps
- By Warren E. Burger and Edward M. Kennedy, July 2, 1987
- Pushers’ Best Friend, the N.R.A.
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- A Move the Mob Would Like
- By Sam Nunn and Edward M. Kennedy, June 19, 1989
Other Coverage
- Health Policy and Economic Security with Senator Edward M. Kennedy
- UC Irvine, 2002
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy; Some Other Year, Maybe, but Not This Time
- The New York Times, April 19, 1984
Documents
- Health policy and economic security: The 2003-04 Peltason Lecture
- Center for the Study of Democracy, 2003.
Books by Edward M. Kennedy
- America Back on Track
- Penguin, Reprint edition, 2007
- “America Back on Track” Interview
- NPR: Fresh Air from WHYY, April 20, 2006
- My Senator and Me: A Dog’s Eye View of Washington, D.C.
- With David Small, 2006
- Freeze! How You Can Help Prevent Nuclear War
- 1982
- Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy
- With Henry Steele Commager, 1979
- In Critical Condition: The Crisis in America’s Health Care
- 1972
- A People of Compassion: The Concerns of Edward Kennedy
- 1972
- Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s
- 1968
Books about Edward M. Kennedy
- Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty
- By Laurence Leamer, 2004
- Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography
- By Adam Clymer, 2000
- Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up
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President Barack Obama is to deliver the eulogy for Senator Edward Kennedy today, taking on the role to which the senator himself was so often called as the longtime patriarch of his famous family.
The funeral was expected to draw mourners from across the political spectrum and all walks of life.
The Massachusetts Democrat, who died on Tuesday at age 77 from cancer of the brain, was being sent off in high fashion on Saturday with a Roman Catholic Mass presided over by no fewer than seven priests, 11 pallbearers and 29 honorary pallbearers.
Tenor Placido Domingo was to sing, accompanied by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Joining Obama and almost 1,500 other mourners at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica were former presidents George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as 58 current members of the US senate, 21 former members and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who was once an aide to Kennedy.
White House aides would not be drawn on the eulogy the president would offer, but Obama was expected to focus on the impact Kennedy had on American life since he first being elected in 1962.
His 47-year career spanned the assassinations of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy; the civil rights era and Apollo moon landings; and battles over health, education and immigration; as well as the election of Obama, the first US black president, who was only 18 months old when Kennedy took office.
Kennedy was remembered on Friday at a bipartisan memorial service whose speakers included senators John McCain and John Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK's daughter.
"Now Teddy has become a part of history," Schlossberg said, "and we are the ones who will have to do all the things he would have done, for us, for each other and for our country."
McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, called Kennedy "the best ally you could have", while Kerry promised to deliver the overhaul of healthcare that his fellow Massachusetts Democrat had sought for so long.
"He laboured with all his might to make healthcare a right for all America, and we will do that in his honour," said Kerry, his party's 2004 presidential nominee.
Following the service, Kennedy's body was to be flown to Andrews Air Force Base, which also received JFK's body after his 1963 assassination, before being driven to the US Capitol then along the National Mall and into Arlington Cemetery. There, as evening falls, he is to be buried on a hillside grave site near his two brothers
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A list of resources about John F. Kennedy as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.
Times Book Reviews
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- By Richard Reeves
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- By Herbert S. Parmet
- A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965)
- By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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Obituary: Edward Kennedy
Edward Kennedy, who has died following a battle with a brain tumour at the age of 77, possessed the full mixture of the virtues, and the vices, that defined America's most famous political dynasty. Chappaquiddick There were expectations that Ted would take on his brother's mantle as a presidential candidate but his political career was about to be dealt a major blow. On July 18 1969, he was at a party on the small Massachusetts island of Chappaquiddick with a group, including six women known as the boiler room girls, who had worked in his brother Robert's presidential campaign. Kennedy left the party, supposedly to drive his brother's former secretary, Mary Jo Kopechne, to catch the last ferry back to the mainland but, instead, the car turned onto a side road and crashed off a bridge into a tidal creek. Kennedy pulled himself from the upturned car and, after swimming across a narrow creek, returned to his hotel without reporting the accident. It was the following morning before local fishermen found the sunken car and discovered the body of Mary Jo Kopechne still inside. Evidence given at the subsequent inquest suggested that she had probably remained alive in an air pocket for several hours and might well have been saved had the alarm been raised at the time. Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, claiming that he had been in shock, and was given a two-month suspended jail sentence. An inquest, held in secret at the request of Kennedy family lawyers, cast serious doubts on Kennedy's story, but no further action was taken. This led to suspicions of a cover-up and the incident effectively ended any hopes Kennedy had of attaining the White House. Chappaquiddick did not prevent his supporters urging him to run for both the 1972 and 1976 presidential nominations but he refused, citing family concerns about his personal safety.
Democratic candidate He finally took the plunge in 1980, standing for the Democratic nomination against the incumbent president, and fellow Democrat, Jimmy Carter. Kennedy hoped to capitalise on the country's economic woes, which had seen Carter's approval ratings slide. But a poorly-managed campaign and a lacklustre appearance in a major TV interview ended Kennedy's hopes. His refusal to concede the contest led to the divisive 1980 Democratic Convention where Kennedy tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade delegates committed to Carter to swap sides. With his presidential hopes over, Kennedy began to rebuild his political career as a champion of liberal causes. His mastery of senate procedure and his growing status in the Democratic Party made him a formidable voice in any debate, and his support was sought by political friends and opponents alike.
The assassination of his brothers, John and Robert, placed a massive burden of expectation on his shoulders which he found difficult to live up to. Yet, despite the shadow of Chappaquiddick, he became a respected elder statesman of the Democratic Party, and a champion of liberal causes in the US Senate. Edward Moore Kennedy was born in the Boston suburb of Brookline on 22 February 1932, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P Kennedy and his wife Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His Irish American parents were both from wealthy political families and his father served as the US ambassador to the UK prior to World War II. After attending private schools in Boston, Kennedy went on to Harvard in 1950, but was expelled a year later after it was discovered that he had cheated in a Spanish exam. He joined the army, serving at the SHAPE headquarters in Paris, before being readmitted to Harvard and graduating in 1956. In 1960 his brother John was elected US president, vacating his Massachusetts seat in the Senate. Edward was unable to stand for the seat until he was 30, so his brother asked the state governor to allow a Kennedy family friend to see out the end of John's term. Although perfectly legal under the constitution, it gave rise to the accusation that Ted Kennedy had been gifted his Senate seat. Edward was duly elected senator for Massachusetts in a special election in 1962, a post to which he would be consistently re-elected until the end of his career. Tragedy stalked the Kennedy family; Edward's oldest brother Joe was killed during the war and, in 1963, John was assassinated as he drove through Dallas. The following year Ted Kennedy himself was badly injured in a plane crash, leaving a legacy of back problems which dogged the rest of his life. In 1968, Ted's brother, Robert, to whom he was particularly close, was assassinated in Los Angeles in the middle of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
He became a master of coalitions, a pragmatist who would often work with his Republican opponents to get legislation through Congress, for example, the Quayle-Kennedy Training for Jobs Bill. Despite his Catholic background, he abandoned his previous opposition to abortion and advocated a woman's right to choose. He was also one of a handful of senators who supported the concept of same-sex marriages, his own state of Massachusetts becoming the first to give a legal framework to such unions. He campaigned in support of better rights for immigrants to the US and was a consistent advocate of tighter gun control. Mindful of his strong base of Irish American support, he originally backed the concept of a united Ireland and, in 1971, called for the withdrawal of British troops. However his views had moderated by 2005, when he publicly snubbed the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams following the murder of Robert McCartney, and hosted a visit to Washington by the sisters of the dead man. In 2006, Time magazine named him as one of America's "Ten Best Senators", saying that he had "amassed a titanic record of legislation affecting the lives of virtually every man, woman and child in the country". Such was his standing as the elder statesman of the Democratic Party that his endorsement was eagerly sought by aspiring presidential candidates. In 2004 he supported his fellow Massachusetts senator, John Kerry, who went on to lose to Republican George W Bush. Kennedy cited Barack Obama's opposition to the invasion of Iraq as one of the main reasons he endorsed the young senator from Illinois for the 2008 nomination, a statement seen as a direct snub to Mr Obama's chief rival, Hillary Clinton. He was also reported to have been angry at some of the more outspoken comments by former President Bill Clinton in support of his wife Hillary's campaign, and he ignored pleas from the Clinton camp to remain neutral. Kennedy said that he had always planned to support the candidate "who inspires me, who inspires all of us, who can lift our vision and summon our hopes and renew our belief that our country's best days are still to come." Kennedy saw the young senator he backed triumph in the presidential election and was present on 20 January 2009 when Mr Obama was sworn in as the 44th US president. Under the new administration, one of his most cherished causes took centre stage. The senator was seen as a key dealmaker in Mr Obama's efforts to push through his flagship healthcare reform plan. The issue had become especially poignant for Kennedy, who was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in May 2008. A week before his death, he wrote to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick asking him to change the law so that a replacement could be found for him immediately after his death. Analysts suggest that he feared a lengthy gap could deny Democrats a crucial vote on the reforms. Edward Kennedy sometimes failed to meet the huge expectations placed upon him following the deaths of his older brothers. But his commitment to what he called their "justice, excellence and courage" ensured he guarded their memory fiercely and, despite his flaws, he left a substantial political legacy
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Robert Francis Kennedy
In his brief but extraordinary political career, the 42-year-old, Massachusetts-born Robert Francis Kennedy was Attorney General of the United States under two Presidents and Senator from New York. In those high offices he exerted an enormous influence on the nation's domestic and foreign affairs, first as the closest confidant of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, and then, after Mr. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, as the immediate heir to his New Frontier policies.
Despite the deep grief he felt after his brother's assassination, Mr. Kennedy set out to replan his political life. He ran for the Senate from New York in 1964 and defeated his Republican opponent by 800,000 votes in a campaign that demonstrated the visceral appeal he had for voters.
Mr. Kennedy, who entered the 1968 presidential race only after the New Hampshire primary demonstrated voter frustration with the Vietnam war, won primaries in Indiana, Nebraska and California.
It was in the early morning hours after his California win that Mr. Kennedy was shot in a kitchen corridor outside the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he had just made his victory speech. He died the next day, June 6, 1968.
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The Fallen Funeral Train Potos of JF Kennedy
The Fallen
The photographer Paul Fusco narrates a slide show of his photos from Robert F. Kennedys funeral train.
Look to the Rainbow
The most significant aspect of the Kennedys, more important than their politics or legislative accomplishments, was their ability to inspire.
August 29, 2009‘Mad Men’ Crashes Woodstock’s Birthday
While the 40th anniversary of Woodstock is getting much air time this summer, perhaps it is Don Draper’s America, the early ’60s country-at-a-pivot-point, that really resonates today.
August 16, 2009Is Everybody All Right?
Joe Fausti was electrocuted while trying to watch the funeral train of Robert F. Kennedy. He hopes that Senator Edward M. Kennedy lives to see a fair resolution to the health care fight.
June 22, 2009
Star Power, Still Shining 40 Years On
A model community development organization for decades, the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation remains a tangible piece of Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy in New York.
February 1, 2009A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch
There is deep history in the week’s notes of dynasty, succession and retreat.
January 25, 2009
Real W.M.D.’s
Focusing on the participants’ military activities, Michael Dobbs offers sobering new information about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
June 22, 2008
Reading File
The busboy who put a rosary in R.F.K.’s hand; shopping malls become an endangered species; why people keep using typewriters.
June 8, 2008He Put a Rosary In R.F.K.'s Hand
Reading File excerpt of Steve Lopez Los Angeles Times article about man who put rosary beads in Robert F Kennedy's hand after he was shot; excerpt of Tim Folger OnEarth article about demise of shopping malls; excerpt of Neil Hallows BBC Web site article about people who continue to buy typewriters; photo
June 8, 2008Savor the Moment
This election year has been a testament to the many decades of work by men and women to build a more just America.
June 7, 2008R.F.K. Bridge May Meet Fate of Ave. of the Americas
New York State Assembly's vote to rename Triborough Bridge in honor of Robert F Kennedy, former US attorney general and New York senator, may not take with commuters and city residents; article notes name changes that have and have not stuck; photos
June 6, 2008
Sneaking Into History
Although I never got to shake hands with Robert F. Kennedy, I did manage to preserve a moment in history.
June 5, 2008
R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited
What America looked like, 40 years ago, from a slain candidate’s funeral train.
June 1, 2008Roads, High and Low
Hillary Clinton could learn something from Senator Joe Biden who exhibited decency and class on Friday morning.
May 27, 2008
Standing In for Kennedy, Obama Embraces Legacy
The symbolism of protégé and mentor permeated Barack Obama’s speech to graduates at Wesleyan University as he stood in for Edward M. Kennedy.
May 26, 2008Comments Cast Shadow on Last Laps in Primaries
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s comments invoking the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy have raised fresh questions about her motivations, overshadowing her campaign.
May 25, 2008All About Eve
Hillary Clinton’s inner Eve Harrington leaped out in South Dakota when she inelegantly revealed why she wants to keep running: stuff happens.
May 25, 2008Clinton Remark on Kennedy’s Killing Stirs Uproar
Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed regret about a remark that brought up concern for Barack Obama’s safety.
May 24, 2008
The Speechwriter
The Kennedy adviser, who doesn’t want credit for what J.F.K. said, weighs the comparison of Barack Obama to Kennedy, and shares what he’d like his obituary to say.
April 27, 2008Nanny of Camelot
This novel’s narrator takes care of the Kennedy children.
Caroline Kennedy
Updated April 27, 2009
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, has continued the Kennedy family tradition of public service. She served as director of strategic partnerships for the New York City school for nearly two years on a part-time basis. Her commitments also involve nonprofit boards: the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., the American Ballet Theater, the Commission on Presidential Debates and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Ms. Kennedy’s work with the city’s public schools has won much attention, but has not been widely understood. Hired in October 2002 (her $1 salary precluded the need to fill out financial disclosure forms) to overhaul the schools’ private fund-raising, she took on a haphazard operation and gave it a new mission: privately raising seed money to test new reforms, while trying to persuade New Yorkers to get involved in the schools in meaningful ways.
A rock concert in Central Park raised $2 million; a tag sale there drew tens of thousands of bargain hunters. (Some of them, unwittingly, walked off with evening bags that had belonged to her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, according to Ann S. Moore, the chief executive of Time Inc., which sponsored the event.) By the time she left in August 2004, Ms. Kennedy had raised more than $70 million for an academy to train reform-minded principals. Nearly 200 city school principals are graduates, the majority in high-poverty schools.
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein credited her with bringing in a $51 million gift from Bill Gates’s foundation despite lingering ill will over Mr. Klein’s battles with Microsoft while he was at the Justice Department.
In December 2008 she declared herself a candidate to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate seat once held by her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In late January, however, she withdrew her name. Her interest in the seat had been a sharp break from decades in which she had closely guarded her privacy. Ms. Kennedy had never held or sought public office before.
In April 2009 the Commission on Public Integrity began reviewing a request from three government watchdog groups to investigate the Paterson administration's leaks of confidential information provided by Ms. Kennedy when she was seeking appointment to the Senate.
Ms. Kennedy's withdrawal embarrassed the governor and ignited fears inside his administration that anyone else he picked would look like a second choice. Hours after Ms. Kennedy's withdrawal, members of the administration called reporters and, insisting on anonymity, claimed that tax problems and issues with a domestic worker had emerged and had derailed her candidacy.
Those claims were highly exaggerated, all sides later acknowledged; no serious or disqualifying issues had arisen.
Before her run at the Senate seat, Ms. Kennedy joined her uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, in endorsing Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries, despite beseeching by Ms. Clinton's camp. That boost was rewarded with a role for Ms. Kennedy as co-coordinator of Mr. Obama's vice presidential search, joining Eric Holder, who later became United States attorney general.
Mr. Kennedy has brain cancer, which has forced members of his extended family to contemplate the possibility that the Senate could be without a Kennedy for the first time in a half century. Friends of Ms. Kennedy said that another reason she had contemplated a run was that her children are older now — her two daughters are in college and her son is in high school.
Ms. Kennedy is married to Edwin A. Schlossberg, a designer. Ms. Kennedy was born in New York and grew up in the city. She graduated from Columbia Law School.
Caroline Kennedy Navigator
A list of resources from around the Web about Caroline Kennedy as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.
- John. F. Kennedy Library Foundation
- Profile in Courage award
- JFK Library
- Transcript from Larry King Live
- Cnn, May 7, 2002.
Other coverage
- Biography
- Biography.com
- “Champion of Civility”
- Time Magazine, July 26, 1999.
- Bomb Kills a Doctor Near London Home Of Caroline Kennedy; A Narrow Escape For Miss Kennedy
- The New York Times, October 24, 1975.
- Almost a Teen-Ager, Caroline Kennedy Talks About Her Life
- AP via The New York Times, October 18, 1970.
Books written by Ms. Kennedy and Ellen Alderman
- In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action
- 1991
- The Right to Privacy
- 1995
Books edited by Ms. Kennedy
- The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 2001
- Profiles in Courage for Our Time
- 2002
Podcast: A Tip for the Copy Girl
In his weekly podcast, Sam Roberts reflects on New Yorkers in politics, then recalls that, years ago, Caroline Kennedy worked for a newspaper and was "bigger than the story" being covered.
Posts about Caroline Kennedy on City Room, a blog of news, multimedia, reader discussions and more about the five boroughs.
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Bloggingheads: Senator Caroline?
Ezra Klein of The American Prospect and Eve Fairbanks of The New Republic discuss whether Caroline Kennedy deserves Hillary Clinton's Senate seat.
The New Yorker: Caroline Kennedy
The Times's Sam Roberts recounts the life of Caroline Kennedy in New York and discusses her bid for the Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Ethics Panel Asked to Look Into Kennedy Leaks
Watchdog groups have asked for an investigation of the release of private information about Caroline Kennedy after she withdrew her name as a Senate candidate.
April 24, 2009nyregionNews
Kennedy Drops Bid for Senate Seat, Citing Personal Reasons
The decision by Caroline Kennedy, who was seen as the top contender for the post, seemed to surprise Gov. David Paterson.
January 22, 2009nyregionNews
Caroline Kennedy Is Seeking Seat Held by Clinton
Caroline Kennedy is launching a public effort to demonstrate that she has both the ability and the stomach to perform the job.
December 16, 2008usNewsCaroline Kennedy Takes Post As Fund-Raiser for Schools
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein appointed Caroline Kennedy yesterday to serve as chief fund-raiser for the New York City schools, a new post that he hopes will increase donations from the private sector and strengthen partnerships between the business community and the vast, cash-strapped school system.
October 2, 2002nytfrontpageNewsThe Kennedy Factor; 40 Years Later, Invoking Spirit of New Frontier
Invoking the themes that her father offered here 40 years ago this summer, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg stepped out of her guarded private life and onto the stage of the Democratic convention tonight to lend the family name to Al Gore's presidential campaign and to thank the nation for its support through what had been another difficult year for the Kennedys.
August 16, 2000usNewsARTICLES ABOUT CAROLINE KENNEDY
Kennedy Says Children Had No Role in Senate Decision
Appearing on the “Today” show, Caroline Kennedy denied a report in Vanity Fair that her children asked her to quit her Senate campaign.
May 19, 2009Ethics Panel Asked to Look Into Kennedy Leaks
Watchdog groups have asked for an investigation of the release of private information about Caroline Kennedy after she withdrew her name as a Senate candidate.
April 24, 2009Paterson Had Staff Deny Kennedy Was Top Choice
Gov. David A. Paterson acknowledged that he ordered his staff to contest Caroline Kennedy’s version of events in the hours after she withdrew from consideration to be United States senator.
February 21, 2009How to Stock a Cabinet
Senator Judd Gregg has dropped his bid to become the secretary of commerce. Why not try filling the Obama administration’s cabinet via TV game shows?
February 14, 2009
Reporting in Real Time
An episode highlights a great fear that the Internet, with its emphasis on minute-to-minute competition, is undermining the values of the print culture.
February 8, 2009In Attack on Kennedy, Echo of a Spitzer Tactic
Gov. David A. Paterson’s administration released confidential information about Caroline Kennedy and directed an effort to discredit her after she withdrew her name from the Senate race.
February 4, 2009Paterson Taking Heat for Health Care Proposal
The state’s most powerful health care interests are launching a media blitz that attacks the governor’s plans to cut funding for health care facilities.
February 2, 2009
Paterson Seeks Distance From Senate Damage, but Hedges
Gov. David A. Paterson has been trying to undo the damage resulting from his selection process for the Senate seat, but his latest remarks may have confused matters more.
January 27, 2009Which Governor Is Wackier?
I love the hurly-burly way the Illinois governor rammed through his choice for the Senate, compared with the namby-pamby way the New York governor strangled his best choice for the Senate.
January 25, 2009A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch
There is deep history in the week’s notes of dynasty, succession and retreat.
January 25, 2009