Ted Kennedy

Obama quoted these three lines from Wordsworth:
As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress;
Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.read more

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For decades, when his Democratic colleagues were running to the right and ducking for ideological cover, he was the only visible, national figure who still proudly carried the liberal banner.read more

I met Kennedy in 2005, when a group of activists in the immigration reform movement went to Washington to huddle with the staff of our staunchest ally.read more

The bipartisan outpouring for Ted Kennedy, following his seizure, hospitalization, and diagnosis of brain cancer, underscores what a major figure in American politics he is.read more