A lot of responses to the death of Senator Kennedy in this state and city in particular–coming from an appointment at the Mayor’s Office and seeing the tributes to the senator quickly put together behind glass cases and the Mayor being pulled out of meetings for press interviews and reactions.
A full life of public service, with all of its complications.. A powerful excerpt from today’s NYTimes article of what Ted Kennedy said at the death of his older brother, Bobby, in June 1968.
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Robert’s death draped Edward in the Kennedy mantle long before he was ready for it and forced him to confront his own mortality. But he summoned himself to deliver an eloquent eulogy at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it,” Mr. Kennedy said, his voice faltering. “Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/us/politics/27kennedy.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1251320450-+hqe37JQ05fF1bwThG/Bxw
Edward Kennedy 1932-2009
A lot of responses to the death of Senator Kennedy in this state and city in particular–coming from an appointment at the Mayor’s Office and seeing the tributes to the senator quickly put together behind glass cases and the Mayor being pulled out of meetings for press interviews and reactions.
A full life of public service, with all of its complications.. A powerful excerpt from today’s NYTimes article of what Ted Kennedy said at the death of his older brother, Bobby, in June 1968.
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Robert’s death draped Edward in the Kennedy mantle long before he was ready for it and forced him to confront his own mortality. But he summoned himself to deliver an eloquent eulogy at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it,” Mr. Kennedy said, his voice faltering. “Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/us/politics/27kennedy.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1251320450-+hqe37JQ05fF1bwThG/Bxw