Barack Obama honored Teddy Kennedy yesterday at the opening ceremony of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
President Obama: "What if we carried ourselves more like Ted Kennedy?" pic.twitter.com/ZdwVbROlpm
— Eric Schultz (@Schultz44) March 30, 2015
Teddy Kennedy was most famous not for the lives he touched but for the one he left behind.
ABC News reported:
The details of the July 19 accident were salacious: a Regatta Weekend reunion party at a friend’s cottage with all married men (except one) and six women — the “boiler room girls” — who had worked together on Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign.
After a day of sailing and heavy drinking, Kennedy drove his black Oldsmobile sedan off a small wooden bridge into Poucho Pond, trapping Kopechne in seven feet of water.
Edward Moore Kennedy — only 38 and up for re-election the following year– had violated one of the cardinal rules in politics: “Never get caught with a dead girl or a live boy.”
Teddy Kennedy “liked to joke about Chappaquiddick” with his closest friends.
Joe Biden added: “He was an anchor for many of us in our personal lives.”
"He was an anchor for many of us in our personal lives." -VP Biden speaking about Senator Ted Kennedy #EMKInstitute https://t.co/atEph5vGM5
— Vice President Biden (@VP) March 30, 2015
