Word: vickie
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...Vicki Kennedy: the woman who saved...
...Kerry says Kennedy, though physically absent the last seven months, was actually very involved in health-care policy, whether through his staff, other Senators or his wife Victoria. "He sat down with his staff and Vicki and others, and he said, 'O.K., we're going to get so-and-so to do this, and we're going to work with [Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara] Mikulski on higher education to do that,' and sort of divvied it up. He talked to [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd. He laid it out, he weighed in," Kerry says. "If Teddy was in treatment...
...hearings, Kennedy acknowledged his misbehavior and apologized. "I recognize my own shortcomings - the faults in the conduct of my private life. I realize that I alone am responsible for them, and I am the one who must confront them," he said. Shortly afterward, he did reform his ways, marrying Vicki Reggie...
Kennedy only fully embraced Catholicism later in life, particularly after marrying his second wife. Vicki Kennedy was one of a handful of prominent Catholic Democrats who strongly urged John Kerry to defend questions about his faith during the 2004 presidential campaign, and she served as a surrogate for the Obama campaign in 2008 in heavily Catholic areas. The now retired Monsignor Thomas Duffy remembers the Senator and his wife becoming regular fixtures at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington's Chevy Chase neighborhood. "He and Vicki used to come to Mass rather regularly when they were...
...religion. One week after the 2004 election, he placed a call to the left-leaning Evangelical leader Jim Wallis. "They're saying we're not religious," Kennedy told Wallis. "But we know that's not true." Wallis spent an evening at the Kennedy home, talking with the Senator and Vicki, and left surprised by what he heard. "I'd never heard Ted Kennedy speak publicly about his faith the way some other politicians do," Wallis recalls now. "But the conversation was very personal and very theological - we talked about Scripture and Catholic social teaching and moral issues, including abortion." Kennedy...