At its best

Teddy and Bobby.

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“Every American should have the opportunity to receive a quality education, a job that respects their dignity and protects their safety, and health care that does not condemn those whose health is impaired to a lifetime of poverty and lost opportunity.”

-Senator Edward Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)

September 12th, 1953.

Jackie getting used to the close-knit camaraderie of her new family before they cut the wedding cake.

I hope for an America where neither “fundamentalist” nor “humanist” will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

- Senator Ted Kennedy

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. with his first and last borns, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. and Teddy Moore Kennedy.

Teddy Kennedy with a team mate playing football at Harvard.

Do I spy Robert McNamara in the background?

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and presidential nominee Sen. Edward Kennedy campaign in St. Louis, Missouri on December 15, 1979.

Joan and Teddy Kennedy.

Senator Kennedy and President Johnson shaking hands with George Washington hanging gloriously in the background. Few things get more epic than that.

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lickystickypickyme:

This is not your blog!

Oh, my god.  If I ever caught someone doing that in my store or library, I would drag them outside by the ear and light them on fire in the street.

Keep it classy, conservatives!

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Top Ten BAMFs || Teddy M. Kennedy

“Like my brothers before me, I pick up the fallen standard. Sustained by their memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, to courage that distinguished their lives.”

Another powerful ethic that Dad taught us was to respect the privacy of others and to ignore whatever disrespect of privacy might come our way. I learned this particular lesson at a birthday party for myself in about 1946. At some point in the afternoon I wandered upstairs - to use the bathroom, I think. I passed a bedroom and heard a boy’s voice. I looked in and saw Lafay Paige, one of the young party guests, talking on the phone, to one of his parents. His back was partly turned and he couldn’t see me. Lafay was saying, “I hope this party gets over pretty quick because it’s really dull and we’re not having much fun at all. It’s really drab, so will you come and get me?” I stood there sort of paralyzed and embarrassed that the boy felt my party was dull.

Then I heard footsteps behind me. My father had just walked out of the master bedroom and spotted me listening to the telephone conversation He quietly told me to come back with him into his bedroom. I thought maybe he was going to console me, but he had another topic entirely on his mind. He said, “Teddy, let me give you some advice. Follow it, and you’ll be much happier the rest of your life.”

 ”Never listen to a phone call that isn’t meant for you. Never read a letter that isn’t meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn’t meant for you. Never violate people’s privacy. You will save yourself a great deal of anguish. You might not understand this now, but you will later on.”

— True Compass, by Teddy Kennedy.

Palm Beach in the 1930’s

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009)
• Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 5, 1968)
• Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)
• Jean Kennedy Smith  (February 20, 1928 — )