| Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009 |
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| Written by The Editors | |
| Wednesday, 26 August 2009 | |
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Ted Kennedy has died at age 77 following a struggle with brain cancer. Both lengthy obituaries in the New York Times and the Boston Globe are well worth your time. Via TMW's Greg Sargent comes this quote, from one year ago today: “This is the cause of my life. New hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American - north, south, east, west, young, old - will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.” You're likely to see some or all of that barnburner of a speech Kennedy delivered to last year's Democratic Convention among today's news coversge – but even better was the remarkable speech he delivered to the 1980 convention, "The Dream Shall Never Die," which you can see at cspan.org . |
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