Senator Edward M. Kennedy 1932-2009

[missmeoow]

"He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of white hair, his florid, oversize face, his booming Boston brogue, his powerful but pained stride. He was a celebrity, sometimes a self-parody, a hearty friend, an implacable foe, a man of large faith and large flaws, a melancholy character who persevered

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[aesis]

Even more admirable, he never found anyone in the Senate he couldn't work with. He could consider almost every colleague in the senate his friend, if only for the respect he won from them.