Edward follows his sister Eunice... by Barbora Misakova

The last of Kennedy brothers is gone. These last few weeks (but not only) were for Kennedy family under sign of loss. On August 11, Eunice Kennedy died; late Tuesday night John’s and Robert’s brother and also Eunice’s brother Ted Kennedy followed them as well. He was 77. Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy, as was his full name, was born in 1932 in Boston as the youngest child. He was attending Harvard College and later the University Of Virginia School Of Law. He got married with Virginia Joan Bennett and had three children with her. When his brother John Kennedy ran for President of the United States, Ted was helping him and managing his campaign. Sho! rtly after the murder of his brother John, he flew to Massachusetts in a private plane which crashed. Ted was lucky. He stayed alive, but he has suffered chronic back pain for the rest of his life. But the life prepared for him something worse just than physical pain. After few efforts to stand for president he realized, that fatal mistake he did on the night of July 18, 1969 will haunt him for the rest of his days and will never let him to become a president of the United States. When his presidential nomination in 1980 was lost, he devoted himself to his Senate career. And that was the right step. Many Senate Republicans consider him to be the most bipartisan and so the easiest Democrat to work with. People will remember him as one of the most influential and longest-serving senators in U.S. history, big liberalist and dealmaker. While Democrats lost his patriarch, Kennedy family lost “irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives.”

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