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"When I was a little kid, we and the Soviets had nukes aimed at each other," Kennedy said. "But we didn't torture people, we didn't suspend habeas corpus, and we didn't bug 300,000 people."
Kennedy ended his speech by asking the attendees to support Obama “to show the world that we went down the wrong path with Bush."
Harvard students in attendance seemed to be pleased with Kennedy's speech.
"People around the world have always desired American leadership," Kennedy continued, "and they named their streets after our leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and so many others."
Kennedy endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in November 2007 and was later joined by his sister, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '73. Those endorsements caused a split in the Kennedy family when Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and Caroline Kennedy '80, daughter of President John F. Kennedy '40, both endorsed...