Senator Ted Kennedy death
Kennedy’s death triggered an outpouring of superlatives, from Democrats and Republicans as well as foreign leaders.
His death came less than two weeks after that of his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver on Aug. 11. Kennedy was not present for the funeral, an indication of the precariousness of his own health.
His only run for the White House ended in defeat in 1980. More than a quarter-century later, he handed then-Sen. Barack Obama an endorsement at a critical point i lebron james shoes n the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, explicitly likening the young contender to President Kennedy.
Kennedy’s family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday.
“For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts,Replica Chanel,” said Obama, vacationing at M cheap kobe shoes artha’s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast.
“An important ch kobe bryant II shoes apter in our history has come to an end. 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,” Obama said in a written statement.
To the American public, Kennedy was best known as the last surviving son of America’s most glamorous political family, father figure and, memorably, eulogist of an Irish-American clan plagued again and again by tragedy.
In nearly 50 years in the Senate, Kennedy served alongside 10 presidents — his brother John Fitzgerald Kennedy among them — compiling an impressive list of legislative achievements on health care, civil rights, education, immigration and more.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer lebron james shoes . He was 77.
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