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Kennedy family stories: 21 news summaries

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Dukakis Is Gracious on Senate Snub

But allies say he was passed over due to Kennedy pressure

Sep 25, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - For a while it looked as if Michael Dukakis would be headed to the Senate to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, but the former Massachusetts governor says he's fine with being passed over. "Hey, after you've run for the presidency of the United States..." the 1988 candidate told the... More »

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Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Michael Dukakis • Deval Patrick • Kennedy family • Senate seat • Paul Kirk

 Top US Political Dynasties 

Kennedys, Rockefellers, and Harrisons sit at the top, while newer Bushes rank 6th

Sep 13, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Constitution states "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States," but political dynasties are "as American as apple pie," writes Stephen Hess, who ranks America's top political families in the Washington Post. With one president, three senators, four reps, and a cabinet... More »

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George HW Bush • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Kennedy family • political dynasty • Rockefeller family • John Adams • Edward Kennedy

OPINION

 Media Airbrush 
 Did Kennedy 
 No Favors: 
 Hitchens 

Camelot replay overshadowed real accomplishments, redemption

Aug 31, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Kennedy “legacy” is not pretty, precisely because it requires so much media “airbrushing” to stay intact. “One of the many dreadful aspects,” Christopher Hitchens writes for Slate, “is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and ‘torch passing’ rhetoric in general.... More »

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media • Christopher Hitchens • Ted Kennedy • death • Chappaquiddick • Kennedy family • legacy • senator • US Senate • JFK • Edward Kennedy

opinion

 Noonan on 
 Reagan and Kennedy: 
 'Grace Met Grace' 

How two political families forged a friendship across the aisle

Aug 28, 09 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan recounts the unlikely friendship of the Kennedys and the Reagans and the time "grace met grace"—when President Reagan ventured to Ted's house in 1985 to make a speech honoring JFK and raise money for his new library. "A friendship that had already begun deepened,... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Ronald Reagan • Nancy Reagan • Kennedy family • Peggy Noonan

(Newser) - When Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with brain cancer, he insisted that he would have a "good ending for myself," and friends tell the New York Times that the late senator's last 15 months were filled with joy. He and his wife Vicki spent evenings watching 24 and James... More »

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Senate • Ted Kennedy • Chris Dodd • Kennedy family • political dynasty • brain cancer

(Newser) - Barack Obama said he was "heartbroken" to learn of the death of Ted Kennedy, whom the president called “one of the greatest senators of our time but also one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy," in an appearance on Martha's Vineyard, where the... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • Ted Kennedy • Kennedy family • senator • US Senate

 'Trailblazer' 
 Shriver Laid to Rest 

Special Olympian: she was 'Queen of humanity'

Aug 14, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - At today's funeral Mass for Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter Maria called her a “trailblazer” who “was scary smart and not afraid to show it,” the Cape Cod Times reports. Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Joe Biden, and Arnold Schwarzenegger attended the private service for the Special Olympics founder... More »

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Joe Biden • Arnold Schwarzenegger • obituary • Massachusetts • Oprah Winfrey • mass • Stevie Wonder • Cape Cod • Kennedy family • memorial service • Maria Shriver • Special Olympics • Eunice Shriver

(Newser) - Not too long ago the mentally disabled—or "retarded" people, as we called them then—were often hidden away in medical institutions, neglected by their families, and subjected to horrific policies such as forced sterilization. Eunice Kennedy Shriver changed all that with the Special Olympics, which started in her... More »

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disabled • obituary • civil rights • Kennedy family • Special Olympics • Eunice Shriver

Apologetic Obama Invites Special Olympic Athletes

He reaches out after gaffe on Leno

Mar 20, 09 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of the Special Olympics said today that Barack Obama called to apologize for his cringe-inducing gaffe on the Tonight Show, even before the episode aired last night, the AP reports. "He apologized in a way that was very moving," Tim Shriver told ABC. "He expressed... More »

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Barack Obama • Tonight Show • Kennedy family • Special Olympics • Tim Shriver

(AP) - More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys. The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house... More »

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earmarks • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Kennedy family

(Newser) - Ted Kennedy appreciates the sentiment, really. But this recent wave of eulogies might be a tad premature, he tells the New York Times. "Obviously I've been touched and grateful," he says in a phone interview. "Beyond that, I don’t really plan to go away soon."... More »

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Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Kennedy family • brain cancer

OPINION

Presumptuous?
Caroline Is Aiming Low

Senate would be lucky to have her 'smart, cultivated' voice: Dowd

Jan 7, 09 10:44 AM CST
(Newser) - When John F Kennedy Jr founded George magazine, many upbraided him for not trading more valuably on his clan’s mystique. But when sister Caroline aims for a Senate seat, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times, she’s “blasted by a howl of ‘How dare she?’... More »

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Congress • Senate • New York • Jesse Helms • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • Strom Thurmond • Kennedy family • Bush dynasty • George W. Bush • political appointment • John F. Kennedy Jr.

Caroline's Piece of Camelot Worth Upward of $100M

Kennedy, extremely wealthy, holds much of the Kennedy family empire

Dec 24, 08 8:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Democrats may be right to be concerned that a Caroline Kennedy Senate appointment would make them look elitist, reports the New York Daily News in an analysis of public records that pegs the Kennedy scion's worth at a $100 million minimum. Though her financial records are held tightly, she’s... More »

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Joe Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • Kennedy family

OPINION

 Goodman: 
 Why Not 
 Caroline? 

Kennedy scion no better or worse than other celebrity candidates

Dec 19, 08 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Edward Kennedy’s 1962 Senate run sent howls of “nepotism” through Massachusetts, with an opponent charging that, were his name Edward Moore not Edward Moore Kennedy, his “candidacy would be a joke.” One could say much the same for Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, “but I find myself... More »

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Senate • Ted Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • Kennedy family

Plenty of Politics on Caroline's Resume

She's never held public office, but this Kennedy is an inside operator

Dec 16, 08 7:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy has never run for so much as dog catcher, and hasn’t even had a full-time job in years, so inevitably her desire to become a US senator has met with some skepticism. But Kennedy’s friends say her nonprofit work has made her a savvy inside operator... More »

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Senate • New York • Harvard • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • Kennedy family

OPINION

 Pay Some Dues, 
 Then We'll Talk 


Dec 8, 08 9:39 AM CST
(Newser) - The notion of Caroline Kennedy taking over Hillary Clinton's Senate seat  is "a truly terrible idea," a potentially disastrous combination of inexperience and perceived entitlement, Firedoglake founder Jane Hamsher writes for Huffington Post. "Her leadership could have been really helpful when we were getting the stuffing beaten... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • Kennedy family • David Paterson • US Senate

 40 Years Later,
 RFK's Children
 Remember 

Three Kennedy kids recall father's empathy, justice

Jun 5, 08 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - To mark the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, 40 years ago today, the New York Times offers vignettes from three of his children—Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend—of life with their father. For Kerry, RFK was the arbiter of fairness, whose teachings in... More »

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family • assassination • Kathleen Kennedy Townsend • Kennedy family • Robert F. Kennedy • 1968

Kennedy Clan Blasts Clinton for RFK Flub

Remark 'may be last nail in her campaign's coffin,' one says

May 25, 08 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has defended Hillary Clinton’s RFK gaffe, but other Kennedy clan members are fuming, the New York Post reports. As the anniversary of RFK’s murder nears, one relative cited Clinton’s “perceived insensitivity,” especially after Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer diagnosis. Another... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • Kennedy family • Robert F. Kennedy

Family, DNA Cast Doubt on JFK Love Child

His mother says she never met Kennedy;
hair sample no match

Mar 1, 08 11:43 AM CST
(Newser) - A Texas-born investment banker's claim to be the love child of JFK is suddenly looking far less credible. The person who would know—his mom—says she never met John F. Kennedy, or any Kennedys for that matter, ABC News reports. Jack Worthington's reputable career and resemblance to Kennedy has... More »

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Texas • Canada • Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • paternity test • love child • Kennedy family • Jack Worthington

Canada Man Says He's JFK's Son

Alleged love child wants DNA compared

Feb 14, 08 3:42 AM CST
(Newser) - A Vancouver man is claiming he's John F. Kennedy's son and he wants the Kennedy clan to supply some DNA so he can prove it. Jack Worthington was born on November 22, 1961—exactly two years before JFK was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged presidential love child says his Texan... More »

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Canada • John F. Kennedy • Vancouver • Kennedy family

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