[ti:Looking Back at the Life of Edward Kennedy ]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:51VOA.COM]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:06.01]in VOA Special English.
[00:09.05]This week, Americans said goodbye
[00:12.01]to the last son of one of
[00:14.31]the nation's most
[00:15.43]politically influential families.
[00:17.96]Senator Edward Kennedy died Tuesday
[00:21.92]of brain cancer. He was seventy-seven.
[00:25.76]Senator Kennedy
[00:27.56]-- often known as Ted or Teddy
[00:30.26]-- was the youngest of four sons born
[00:33.19]to Rose and Joseph Kennedy.
[00:35.83]He followed his brothers John
[00:38.37]and Robert into politics.
[00:40.71]John became president.
[00:43.17]Robert became his attorney general,
[00:46.17]and later a senator.
[00:48.19]Both were assassinated
[00:50.08]in the nineteen sixties.
[00:52.30]Edward first won his Senate seat
[00:55.38]from Massachusetts in nineteen sixty-two.
[00:58.54]Six years later, he showed his gifts
[01:02.03]as a speaker after a gunman shot Robert.
[01:05.82]EDWARD KENNEDY: "My brother
[01:06.72]need not be idealized
[01:07.72]or enlarged in death beyond
[01:10.13]what he was in life;
[01:12.19]to be remembered simply as a good
[01:14.19]and decent man who saw wrong
[01:17.08]and tried to right it."
[01:18.42]Robert wanted to become president.
[01:20.52]So did Edward. But his political career
[01:23.76]nearly ended in nineteen sixty-nine.
[01:26.74]He drove a car off a low bridge
[01:29.99]on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts.
[01:33.17]His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
[01:37.45]The senator left and waited hours
[01:40.70]to go to the police.
[01:42.51]He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene
[01:45.20]and received a suspended sentence.
[01:47.93]Still, he went on to become
[01:50.08]the third longest serving senator ever.
[01:53.74]He ran for president in nineteen eighty.
[01:56.92]The Democrats nominated Jimmy Carter
[01:59.92]for a second term.
[02:01.67]Other Kennedys today are active
[02:05.32]in politics and public service.
[02:08.11]Edward's son Patrick is in Congress.
[02:12.05]But for now no one holds national
[02:15.25]attention the way the senator did.
[02:18.25]It was not always good attention.
[02:21.49]As the New York Times put it,
[02:24.28]he "struggled for much of his life
[02:26.77]with his weight, with alcohol
[02:29.46]and with persistent tales of womanizing."
[02:33.30]But President Obama remembered him
[02:36.10]as "not only one of the greatest senators
[02:39.43]of our time,
[02:40.78]but one of the most accomplished Americans
[02:43.81]ever to serve our democracy."
[02:46.55]Edward Kennedy was known as
[02:49.55]"the liberal lion of the Senate."
[02:52.49]He said his "best vote" was his vote
[02:56.37]against the Iraq war.
[02:58.67]But he was also willing
[03:00.71]to compromise with Republicans.
[03:03.10]He fought for civil rights
[03:05.61]for the disabled and for workers' rights.
[03:08.96]He helped negotiate
[03:11.10]the Northern Ireland peace agreement
[03:13.60]in nineteen ninety-eight.
[03:15.50]And ten years later, in two thousand eight,
[03:19.88]he was one of the first top Democrats
[03:22.77]to support a young senator
[03:25.14]seeking the party's nomination for president.
[03:28.83]EDWARD KENNEDY: "My friends,
[03:29.89]I ask you to join in this historic journey
[03:33.28]to have the courage to choose change.
[03:36.80]It is time again for a new generation
[03:40.06]of leadership.
[03:41.30]It is time now for Barack Obama!"
[03:46.30]Social issues were at the heart
[03:48.64]of Edward Kennedy's work.
[03:50.30]But he never got to reach one of his goals:
[03:53.53]health coverage for all Americans.
[03:56.88]His weakening health kept him away
[04:00.72]from the Senate in his final months.
[04:03.82]But he continued to work from home
[04:06.87]to help support President Obama's
[04:09.96]top legislative aim, a health reform plan.
[04:14.44]Edward Moore Kennedy will be buried Saturday
[04:18.67]near his brothers John and Robert
[04:21.70]at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
[04:25.70]They also had five sisters.
[04:28.50]Eunice died on August eleventh.
[04:32.13]The last survivor now is Jean Kennedy Smith.
[04:36.97]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:39.81]in VOA Special English,
[04:42.41]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:44.55]I'm Steve Ember.
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