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Senator John Kerry, the new senior Senator from Massachusetts, stood with his eyes closed, his right hand on Ted Kennedy's flag-draped casket. Thirty seconds went by, and, head bowed, Kerry crossed himself and stepped back. His hand reached toward the casket one last time for a final friendly...
"As far as I'm concerned, we still have a senior Senator, and we have to celebrate his life," Kerry says a few minutes later backstage at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, where his friend and mentor is lying in repose. Dozens of Kennedy relatives mill around, and Kerry...
The first task will be the cause of Kennedy's life: health-care reform. Kerry has been watching the coverage following Kennedy's death, and he worries about progressives using Kennedy's passing as an excuse to dig in their heels on the inclusion of a public option, a key...
"Teddy was in favor of a public plan, and Teddy would've fought for a public plan on the floor of the Senate," Kerry bristles. "Teddy would've probably found a way to have a vote, and if he'd lost the vote, he'd have moved on. That's...
Kennedy's legacy, Kerry says, is one of reaching across the aisle, of not making the perfect the enemy of the good, as Kennedy liked to say. "I learned that really early on, when I first got to Washington, and Teddy would invite me over to the house, and I...