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Kennedy, 76, was put in a wheelchair after suffering what appears to have been a seizure at the end of the meal. He was escorted to an ambulance by three Senators, Orrin Hatch, John Kerry and Chris Dodd. Kennedy's wife Victoria and his son Patrick accompanied him to a...
The new President had been chatting at another table when the Kennedy incident occured. "Looks like somebody's down," Obama reportedly said. After Kennedy was taken to a hospital, Obama returned from the door through which he had left. "He came back and seemed very, very concerned," said Senator Patrick...
A few minutes later, while addressing the gathering, Obama referred to Kennedy and said, "Right now a part of me is with him ... Our prayers are with his family." Another senior Senator, Robert Byrd of Virginia, who is in his nineties and is also in poor health, was wheeled out...
The Senators who witnessed the event were optimistic about Kennedy's condition. "It was a difficult thing, but it looked to me as if he would be O.K.," said Hatch. "He was starting to do O.K. by the time he was being wheeled out." Later, Obama's chief of staff...
Former Vice President Walter Mondale said, "We were talking for 20 minutes, telling old war stories. He was keeping us all laughing." And then, said Mondale, "he seemed to go into a seizure of something." After the seizure, said Senator Leahy, "a lot of us were making the sign of...