US President Barack Obama listens as US Senator Ted Kennedy gives a speech in April 2009. Kennedy, the last of the storied band of brothers who appeared born to rule, has died after losing a battle with brain cancer, his family said.
Because Kennedy never made it to the finish line, he never had to endure a post-presidential twilight. Instead, by the time of his death on Aug. 25 in Hyannis Port at the age of 77, he had 46 working years in Congress, time enough to leave his imprint on everything from the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the
Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009, a law that expands support for national community-service programs. In the last year of his life, with the inauguration of
Barack Obama, he had the satisfaction of seeing a big part of that dream fulfilled. In early 2008, when Obama had just begun to capture the public imagination, Kennedy bucked the party establishment. Just before
Super Tuesday, the venerable Senator from Massachusetts enthusiastically endorsed the young Senator from Illinois, helping propel Obama to the Democratic nomination and ultimately the
White House.
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He had his ups and downs, but he worked hard for the people of this country. May he rest in peace.
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