Edward Kennedy (1932-2009): Veteran Senator Championed Civil Rights, Healthcare, Working Poor in 46-Year Career
Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts died last night in his home in Hyannis Port after a bout with brain cancer. He was seventy-seven years old. Kennedy served in the Senate for forty-six years and was known by some as the "liberal lion" for his steadfast advocacy of progressive causes. In recent years, Kennedy endorsed President Obama's bid for the White House in what was seen as a key turning point in the presidential campaign. Kennedy voted against authorizing the Iraq war in 2002, later calling it the best vote he ever cast in the Senate. He was the last surviving brother of the generation of Kennedys who dominated US politics in the 1960s. We play highlights of Kennedy's remarks on Iraq, civil rights, his endorsement of President Obama, and his 1968 eulogy for his brother, Robert F. Kennedy. We also speak with former New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography. Ref. Source 7
Immigrants' Champion: Juan Gonzalez on Ted Kennedy's Support for Cesar Chavez and Migrant Workers
Juan Gonzalez discusses the late Senator Edward Kennedy's longtime advocacy of union leader Cesar Chavez and migrant workers across the country. "From the Imperial Valley of California to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, from the apple orchards of Washington to the cane fields of Florida -- in all those places where invisible immigrant hands still pick America's food -- [Ted Kennedy] will be sorely missed," writes Gonzalez in the New York Daily News. Ref. Source 9
Senator Edward Kennedy was NOT a great man. He spent his life doing everything possible to change the United States of American into an image of the Soviet Union. He did everything he could to damage business in the US, to eliminate the middle class, and ensure that the rich elite of the liberal left would run the world.
Here is just one example.
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"On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov." Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign." |
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