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Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (22 February &#; 25 August) was the senior Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. In office from November to August , Kennedy was, at the time, the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia. He was the younger brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, and the uncle of Caroline Kennedy.

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• My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
  • Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy (8 June )

• President Nixon has told us, without question, that we seek no military victory, that we seek only peace. How then can we justify sending our boys against a hill a dozen times or more, until soldiers themselves question the madness of the action? The assault on "Hamburger Hill" is only symptomatic of a ment

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  Political positions of Ted Kennedy

  Main article: Ted Kennedy

  U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) took positions on many political issues throughout his career via his public comments and senatorial voting record. He was broadly liberal with regard to social issues. Kennedy favored stricter gun control, supported LGBT rights and abortion rights, advocated for universal health care, and legislated for education initiatives.

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  Kennedy was initially opposed to abortion rights; a letter to a constituent dated August 3, , opposed legal abortion on demand.^[1] Kennedy's reversal on this issue after the Roe v. Wade decision in became a source of continuing dispute between him and the Catholic Church, of which he was a member.^[2]

  In , Kennedy delivered an impassioned speech, condemning Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork as a "right-wing extremist" and warning that "Robert Bork's America" would be one marked by back-alley abortions and other backwa

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  Ted Kennedy

  American politician (–)

  "Edward Kennedy" redirects here. For other people, see Ted Kennedy (disambiguation) and Edward Kennedy (disambiguation).

  

  Ted Kennedy
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  In office November 7, &#;– August 25,
  Preceded by	Benjamin A. Smith II
  Succeeded by	Paul G. Kirk
  In office January 3, &#;– August 25, On leave: June 9 – August 25, *
  Preceded by	Mike Enzi
  Succeeded by	Chris Dodd (acting)
  In office June 6, &#;– January 3,
  Preceded by	Jim Jeffords
  Succeeded by	Judd Gregg
  In office January 3, &#;– January 20,
  Preceded by	Jim Jeffords
  Succeeded by	Jim Jeffords
  In office January 3, &#;– January 3,
  Preceded by	Orrin Hatch
  Succeeded by	Nancy Kassebaum
  In office January 3, &#;– January 3,
  Preceded by	James Eastland
  Succeeded by	Strom Thurmond
  In office January 3, &#;– January 3,
  Leader	Mike Mansfield
  Preceded by	Russell B. Long