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Ted exceeded expectations
Analysis: Like John and Bobby Kennedy, their little brother aspired to the presidency. In that quest, he was Edward the Lesser. But history may well record that the youngest and least gifted of the Kennedy brothers achieved far more.
Health care reform was Ted's unfinished life's work
Ted Kennedy often said his biggest political mistake was turning down a health care deal with Richard Nixon, and Kennedy's old lament had Democrats on Wednesday thinking again about compromise on reform.
Daly: Kennedy's work changed how we live in NYC
Teddy's particular magic was at a table, eye to eye. I left the library that night with a good idea of how he managed to accomplish so much in the Senate, how this unrepentant liberal forged deep friendships, even with conservatives.
Kennedy's death deprives Dems of 60-vote 'supermajority'
It may be months before Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat is filled, but it took only minutes Wednesday for the chatter to start over possible successors - among them his mourning widow, Victoria.
Teary Biden: Never see the likes of Teddy again
Political allies and rivals alike poured out their hearts on Wednesday over the loss of Sen. Edward Kennedy, a man who held principles but not grudges and seldom let disagreements get in the way of friendship.
Nation mourns the passing of Kennedy
The family of Sen. Edward Kennedy grieved privately for their patriarch Wednesday and planned a grand public sendoff for the liberal icon before he is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Kennedy's death brings close to Camelot era
The Kennedy brothers built up the myth of Camelot, that if the sons of a bootlegger-turned-businessman strove hard enough, they could capture the country's highest political offices.
'Heartbroken' Obama mourns Kennedy death
A heartbroken President Obama remembered Sen. Ted Kennedy- a man whose friendship and life's work in many ways made Obama's rise to the White House possible - as "the greatest United States senator of our time."
Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at age 77
Sen. Edward Kennedy, the indefatigable liberal icon whose 47 years in the Senate were often overshadowed by his twin roles as keeper and casualty of the Camelot myth, died Tuesday night in Hyannis Port. He was 77.
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