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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Victoria Reggie Kennedy

Victoria Reggie Kennedy stories: 7 news summaries

 Joe K Won't Run 
 to Succeed Teddy 

Joseph Kennedy II says he'd rather work for 'social justice' in private sector

Sep 7, 09 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Kennedy II will not run for his late uncle’s US Senate seat, the Boston Herald reports. In a post on the website of his charity Citizens Energy, the former congressman says he prefers to pursue social justice through the private sector rather than electoral politics. The announcement means... More »

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Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Joe Kennedy • Robert F. Kennedy • Victoria Reggie Kennedy • US Senate

Sen. Vicki Kennedy? No Consensus on What's Next

Widow was deeply involved in Ted's political career

Aug 29, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - All agree that Vicki Kennedy turned around husband Ted’s life, but there is little consensus on where the 55-year-old widow will go from here, Politico reports. “All this stuff about her going to the Senate is completely wrong,” says longtime family adviser (and speechwriter) Bob Shrum. Indeed,... More »

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Congress • Senate • Ted Kennedy • health care reform • special election • widows • Victoria Reggie Kennedy • Vicky Kennedy

 In Politics and Love, 
 Vicki Rescued Ted 

Politically savvy wife brought long-sought happiness to senator

Aug 29, 09 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - As a love story and a political partnership, Ted Kennedy's relationship with wife Victoria defined the last decades of his life, the New York Times reports in a piece on the most powerful and politically savvy of the Kennedy wives. When the senator fell in love with banking lawyer Victoria... More »

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Mitt Romney • Ted Kennedy • Victoria Reggie Kennedy

(Newser) - Over the years, Ted Kennedy relied a lot on his wives, first Joan Bennett and then Vicki Reggie, and the two women couldn’t have been more different, writes Martha Moore of the USA Today. Joan, one of the celebrated Camelot-era Kennedy wives, was reserved and troubled, but it... More »

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Ted Kennedy • political dynasty • Victoria Reggie Kennedy • women's issues • Joan Kennedy

GLOSSIES

 Kennedy Drinking Again: Book 

Family fighting over Lion's legacy

May 5, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Kennedy’s grim health prognosis has driven him to drink, according to Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died, a new book from longtime Kennedy scribe Edward Klein. In an excerpt in Vanity Fair, Klein says Kennedy’s wife moved him to Florida after the seizure because his Hyannis... More »

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alcohol • Ted Kennedy • Joe Kennedy • alcohol abuse • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • political dynasty • Victoria Reggie Kennedy

 Kennedy Doing 
 Well, Wife Reports 

Senator responding to cancer treatment

Jul 7, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Kennedy is responding well to cancer treatment, according to his wife, Vicki. Although he's experiencing some fatigue—a “word that has never been in Teddy’s vocabulary before”—he is exercising every morning and sailing nearly every day. The venerable senator is halfway through 6 weeks of... More »

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chemotherapy • Ted Kennedy • sailing • radiation • brain cancer • Victoria Reggie Kennedy

Smart, Capable, and in Control

Ted Kennedy's wife, Victoria, is helping him recover—and could even take his job

May 30, 08 6:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - She whipped Ted Kennedy's staff into action after his seizure; she brought the family to his bedside; she allowed the aging senator, diagnosed with brain cancer, to join in the traditional Cape Cod regatta on Memorial Day weekend. Victoria Reggie Kennedy, his wife of 16 years, is right by his... More »

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Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • Camelot • brain cancer • Victoria Reggie Kennedy

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