Though it is Teddy's historic body of achievements that we will remember, it is his giving heart that we will miss. It was the friend and the colleague who was always the first to pick up the phone and say, "I'm sorry for your loss," or, "I hope you feel better," or, "What can I do to help?" It was the boss so adored by his staff that over 500, spanning five decades, showed up for his 75th birthday party.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will lie in repose today and Friday at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, followed by his funeral Saturday at a city church and burial later that day near his slain brothers at Arlington National Cemetery. Kennedy's family plans to travel by motorcade with his body from their compound on Cape Cod, Mass., to the library in Boston today. The facility will be open to the public for certain periods on both days while Kennedy lies in repose. The Kennedys have planned a private memorial service at the library for Friday night, according to a schedule of events released by Kennedy's Senate office.
From staff and wire reports Kansans offered praise for Sen. Edward Kennedy's passion and style on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday night alongside slain brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery, celebrated for "the dream he kept alive" across the decades since their deaths. Crowds lined the streets of two cities on a day that marked the end of an American political era - outside Kennedy's funeral in rainy Boston where he was eulogized by President Obama, and later in the day in humid, late-summer Washington.
Republicans and Democrats came together Friday night in a bipartisan spirit to celebrate the life of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, but politics seeped into the event, with Sen. John Kerry declaring that Congress will pass health care reform "in his honor. A cavalcade of powerful politicians gathered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and museum on Dorchester Bay for a private service featuring music, laughter and occasionally ribald stories. While top Republican Sens. John McCain and Orrin G. Hatch were on hand, Democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd made light of their support for some facets of the late senator's always liberal agenda.
BOSTON - Sen. Edward Kennedy began his final journey Thursday, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family's famous name and then to his slain brother's presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him and an American political dynasty. Crowds assembled along the 70-mile route that snaked from the family's compound in Hyannis Port, along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, past the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and by the JFK stop on the city's subway system.
Vacations are, of course, a chance to get away. We take them as a break from job stress, at-home happenings and the real-world, as a comma or even semi-colon in the life routine, to catch R&R, reap TLC and celebrate TGIF on Tuesdays, too.
BOSTON - As a little girl, Caroline Kennedy hung out at her father's desk while he worked in the country's most famous office. Now the library she works with to preserve her father's memory has introduced a way anyone can sit - virtually - at John F. Kennedy's desk and learn more about his life and administration. On Monday, the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston unveiled a new online feature, The President's Desk.
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