Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The Boston Globe reported earlier that “President Barack Obama will deliver a eulogy at US Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s funeral Mass on Saturday.”
Kennedy’s funeral will be held at a time yet to be determined Saturday morning at The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Mission Hill section of Boston.[...]
Obama was a political [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.
As a young student at Columbia University – off for the summer — I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week. The spring of 1968 had been exhilarating and tumultuous.
Gene [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a raging firestorm in the blogopshere over Hillary Clinton’s remarks made “Thursday, in a meeting with the editorial board of the the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.” As I noted below, Clinton has expressed regret for the statement.
Robert Kennedy Jr., who endorsed Hillary Clinton months ago, issued the following statement this evening (emphasis mine):
“It is clear from the [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s been a lot of news I haven’t had a chance to cover today, so here’s a few links and musings on it all.
Hillary Clinton Closed Out the Petraeus/Odierno Hearing with “Key Withdrawal Questions” today, adnvancing the “cause of Iraq withdrawal and redeployment.”
NBC News had a brief interview with Senator Ted Kennedy as he and [...]
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