two, one, booster ignition and liftoff of "discovery. kbt "celebrating its 20th birthday by racking up supplies to the space station. houston controlling the midnight ride. crew of the international space station. "discovery" rolling on to the proper alignment. >> reporter: shock baefs, you probably can hear, just hitting us here at the area. spectacular launch of "discovery. ""continues on now. ten minutes from now they'll have main engine shutoff. the shuttle "discovery" will be in orbit chasing down the international space station. it will take 2 1/2 days to get there. they'll catch up with the space station and begin the 13-day mission. spectacular night launch, here, erica, well worth waiting for. "discovery's" seven-member crew on its way. >> to see it light up the night

sky quite the way to start up your weekend. saturday, at this point in florida where you are. historic for a lot of reasons, not only as we're watching this nighttime launch here. first time two latino astronauts have been onboard a space shuttle. you mentioned the seven astronauts as well. one of them will be staying at the international space station. nicole stott. she's a flight engineer. another one will be arriving home. >> reporter: they're changing out. this will be the last time, another sign the shuttle program is ending, erica, the last time an astronaut will fly to the international space station on board the space shuttle. the rest of the missions next year, no more astronauts going back and up on the space shuttle. last one, nicole stott. >> which should be a bittle sweet moment for those folks. it's great to listen to the feed that we get as we listen to

mission control giving the cues, giving the go for a launch. you can hear the excitement in their voices as they prepare, getting closer to the final moment. >> reporter: there's no question about it. you mentioned bittersweet. there's no doubt about it. you can feel it here at the kennedy space center, too. they're winding down. after this, six shuttle flights left. nicole stott, last of the astronauts going up on a space shuttle. the next will be going up on rockets in the future, using the russians until the next u.s. generation vehicle is built. a lot of people around here wondering where their jobs are going to be after the shuttle has ended. these are tough times but illuminating times. >> john zarrell ka, good to have you with us. joining us live from the kennedy space center. i'm erica hill in new york. "discovery" heads into orbit.

we send you back to an hbo documentary, "teddy in his own words." ♪ for the last ten weeks, i have not been active in public life, i have concerned myself with my family. i have spent much time by the sea. clearing my mind and my spirit of the events of last june. some of you have suggested that for safety sake, and for my family's sake, i retire from public life.

but there is no safety in hiding, not for me, nor for any of us here today. like my three brothers before me, i pick up a fallen standard, sustained by their memory of our priceless years together. i shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, to courage, that distinguish their lives. >> there is no safety in hiding, he said, for himself or anyone else. the party activists have not had the heart to talk politics to him that they say among themselves he would be a formidable if not unbeatable candidate. >> i was flattered by the interest, but it was a time of grieving, myself, and the family, and i just didn't think it was right to try to put the family through another campaign. and i don't believe i was set myself, in terms of -- given the

loss of my brother, to have done it. >> mrs. ethyl kennedy today, gave birth to her 11th child, a girl, six months after the assassination of senator robert kennedy. mrs. kennedy, 40 years old, now has four daughters and seven sons. both mother and infant are in excellent condition. senator kennedy and mrs. kennedy stayed with mrs. kennedy in the delivery and recovery rooms. >> i want to say how happy we are. i told ethyl joan and i are going to take this baby home. we think ethyl has enough of them. ♪ >> i say to you, we will restore

the strength of america. sock it to 'em! sock it to 'em! >> richard milhous nixon will be the next president of the united states. >> we have a new president. he has shown that he's an extremely hard and industrious worker. this morning he indicated that he wasn't going to use the oval room. my mother read that in the paper and she called me up, and she said teddy, i see where the president isn't going to use the oval room. she said i think someone ought to use it. we're looking into that. >> in 1969, we had a republican president. and it seemed important that we begin to have a loyal opposition. and to the extent that i could be a part of the leadership in the senate, it seemed to be both

an important opportunity as well as responsibility. and one that i couldn't let go by. >> a new congress opened for business today in washington. in opening day produced an important victory for kennedy of massachusetts. democratic colleagues chose edward kennedy as assistant majority leader in the senate. >> this opening day of the 91st congress bill most likely be remembered as the day senator ed bard kennedy moved out of the long shadow of his two brothers and began to stake out his own future. >> senator edward m. kennedy drove a car off a narrow bridge on martha's vineyard, massachusetts. kennedy survived by a young woman with him was drown. mary jo kopechne, a late secretary. ms. kopechne drown. >> i made an effort to dive in the strong current, exceeded only by my state of alarm and

utter exhaustion. i was skbroefr come by a jumble of emotion, grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock. my conduct and conversations over the next several hours make no sense to me at all. according to police, eight hours elapsed until he showed up to report it. >> a spokesman for the senator said he might attend the funeral for ms. kopechne tomorrow in summit, pennsylvania. a hearing of the charge against senator kennedy has been scheduled for next monday. >> today, police moved to prosecute the senator on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. >> this morning, i entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident. i regard as indefensible the fact that i did not report the accident to the police

immediately. these events, the publicity, innuendo, and whispers which have surrounded them, and my admission of guilt this morning, raises the question, in my mind, of whether my standing among the people of my state has been so impaired, that i should resign my seat in the united states senate. i've been impacted by a number of tragedies in my life. the loss of life of people, members of my family. those were circumstances which i really didn't have control. i could feel the sense of regret and the sense of sadness and the sense of loss. but this was a circumstance in which i did have a responsibility. in that sense it was quite different from other life's experience.

>> senator kennedy returned to the senate for the first time since his automobile accident and seldom has a return to work been marked by such public attention. >> kennedy said last night he decided not to resign from the senate. >> i made the decision to continue in public life after the tragedy of chappaquiddick. i'm a very different person than prior to that tragedy. the way that i'm a different person, i think is probably reflected in my own view about, sort of life and people and faith in god. i'm a different person. he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old!

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( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion. - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu? - ( crowd gasps ) - ( chirp ) joint custody. - phew! - announcer: get work done now. communicate in less than a second with nextel direct connect. only on the now network. deaf, hard of hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com. senator there's obviously a great price one has to pay these days for political life. that some have to pay. your brother john sought the price worth paying, so obviously did your brother bobby, and so

do you, it seems. when you talk to your own two sons and nephews, do you encourage them to go into politics as your father did you? is the price worth the pain? >> well, this generation is going to have to make up their own minds about what they're going to do. 20 odd nieces of nephews of mine. their talents should be devoted towards, not their own personal wants or satisfactions but towards helping and assisting others, that's really what robert kennedy would have wanted of his children, and president kennedy would have wanted of his. and that can take a variety of different expression, it doesn't take necessary that they run for any office, but it -- it's that they devote themselves to the public good, and i think they'll do well.

>> so it is worth the pain? >> well, i suppose it is. >> on an occasion, such as this, it's a pleasure to introduce my four strongest supporters, my wife, joan, patrick joseph kennedy, edward moore kennedy and kara anne kennedy and with that basis of strength and support, i'm announcing my candidacy for re-election for the senator of the united states for massachusetts. >> the next president, not this one but the next one coming up? >> i think if there's within something that our family has learned over the period of time, is that we don't make long-term plans.

that's been an experience that we've had. >> at a time when there are high government officials that are playing to the fears and frustrations of the people within our society, i want to be a voice of reconciliation, a voice that appeals to the best within people, within our country, and i return to the united states senate for that purpose. >> i'd like to get teddy taped.

that's why i want a lot more use of wiretapping. >> supposing it's something that we can really have, teddy or the kennedy clan. we're going to want to run with it. >> just looking for scandal or improprieties. >> now you're talking. >> you hear about wallace? it's quite serious. >> governor george wallace, of alabama was shot and wounded today while campaigning in laurel, maryland. his press secretary says he is in critical condition. >> he's got one bullet in the stomach and near the spine. they think he's going to live, he may be paralyzed, he may not be. but be that as it may. >> we've identified the fellow who had this gun and was the assailant apparently as arthur herman bremer. >> can we pin this on one of theirs? >> sure. >> look, can we play the game a little smart for a change?

>> just say he was a supporter of kennedy. just put that out. just say you have it on unmistakable evidence. >> there ought to be a record. >> screw the record and put it out. >> it was clear that this was an atmosphere, and a climate in -- where the white house was politically taking no prisoners. they were infiltrating the movement. >> kennedy has written asking for secret service protection. >> you understand what the problem is. they'll say we didn't furnace it until after the election. he doesn't get a thing and if he had a chance. >> i'd do it on the basis though that we pick the secret servicemen. do you have anybody in secret service that you can get to? do you have anybody that you can rely on? >> yeah, we got several. >> plant one, plant two guys on him. this could be very useful. >> senator kennedy, there's a thing today, that i would love

to get your reaction to. it's just preposterous. they talk about the james bond plot that took place in washington where they found these people sneaking into democratic headquarters with eavesdropping devices. one of them was a cia man. when i heard it on the radio, i thought it was a prank of some kind on the local radio station. what diabolical information and secret could there be in there that they would have to go through all that risk and effort to get? >> in the democratic national committee? >> yeah. >> i'm not so sure, but it does -- i don't think any of us really know exactly what they were up to. but this is enormously desperate kind of an attempt by the -- this fellow, who is the head of security for the committee to re-elect the president. and i don't -- i don't know, really, what -- i don't know --

i can't figure it out. can you? >> good evening. the complicated, confusing, alarming story of political espionage and eavesdropping that has come to be known as watergate, came under the scrutiny of a committee of the united states senate. its purpose to get to the bottom of what threatens to become the worst scandal in the nation's political history. >> i do know that there was extensive surveillance on senator kennedy, which i've testified to. >> was this for political purposes? >> yes, sir, it was. >> who else? >> senator kennedy was the principal one, where i would say the greatest amount of surveillance was conducted on senator kennedy and subsequently, politically embarrassing information was sought. >> was the fbi aware that this surveillance was for political purposes? >> the fbi didn't perform this. this was performed directly by the white house. >> i welcome this kind of examination.

because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> senator edward kennedy, his oldest son, teddy junior, 12 years old had the lowest portion of his right leg amputated because of bone cancer. >> i had a son that lost his leg to cancer. that was really, one of the raw occasions that have been very close to -- deep in my heart and soul. >> teddy was so overwrought with the news that his leg was amputated. over the last several years, teddy has had more tragedies of the year starting with the loss of his brother in 1963. up to 1973. he's had tremendous, tremendous crosses. >> of course in the past few months, i've had the unfortunate

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i'd feel that i speak out on the issues, call them as i see them. i'm recognized, being a figure that people feel strongly about. but that's the kind of senator i want to be.

>> today's march came three days before 18,000 public school children in boston will board buses to begin the first stage of the school desegregation. >> east boston says no! >> never before had a kennedy been met with such a reception in boston. he was booed. the crowds urged towards this once favorite son. as he walked towards the federal building, tomatoes and newspapers started flying and the nonviolence stopped. >> senator, how do you explain that crowd's reaction to you? >> i think their first concerns are really not with the issue of busing, but what's going to be at the other end of the bus. >> why did they react to you so violently? >> because first of all, they have very deep concerns about the whole question of the desegregation plan here in the

city of boston, and i think that they've -- they're expressing their frustrations and their concerns. >> it was the senator's first public appearance in boston since he was roughly treated by an anti-school busting crowd two weeks ago. but kennedy said that played no part in the decision that it was for personal reasons he had come to this decision. >> it has become quite apparent to me that i will be unable to make a full commitment to the campaign for the presidency. i simply cannot do that to my wife, my children and other members of my family. therefore, in 1976, i will not be a candidate for president or vice president of the united states. >> jimmy carter will be the next president of the united states. >> senator kennedy's office. can you hold a moment, please? >> maybe we can get henry royson and two, three republicans to put this in.

>> inflation is a clear and present danger for this nation. >> everybody has to -- >> we can't get everybody. >> come on down here. come on now. >> brad, that's all right. >> millions of our fellow citizens are out of work. >> we'll come to order. we have the agenda before us, the first issue. >> do you gather any impression about whether they were going to move at all on the immigration issue? >> it is wrong women and minorities are denied their equal rights. cities are struggling against decay. >> we're going to pursue this matter until the job gets done. >> the president, at that time, was not really challenging the country, and when he was talking about the malaise of the american people. that isn't the democratic party that i know. >> we have been able to try and pass this health care for all americans' legislation. >> i have a very fundamental difference with the president carter on the health care issue.

>> the next panelist, distinguished senator from the state of massachusetts, edward kennedy. >> thank you very much. sometimes a party must sail against the wind. it is time for the democratic party to take up the cause of health. there probably has not been a family in this country that has been touched by sickness, illness and disease, like my own family. i had a father that was touched by a stroke, and sick for seven years. we were able to get the very best in terms of health care, because we were able to afford it. it would have bankrupted any average family in this nation. i've been able to receive it for myself and for my family, just like all of us that are on the tip of the iceberg.

way up high in the health care services. we've got the very best, all of us at the tip of the iceberg. but i want every delegate at this convention to understand that as long as i'm a vote, and as long as i have a voice in the united states senate, it's going to be for that democratic platform plank that provides decent quality health care, north and south, east and west, for all americans, as a matter of right and not a privilege. >> his publicity has been almost fawning and standing in public opinion polls high. president carter's standing dismal and going down, with inflation going up. kennedy for president became possible. >> let's take personal considerations. have you promised your mother, that you won't run for the presidency while she's still alive? >> i didn't promise her that i wouldn't run while she was alive.

but my mother has indicated that she would support any decision that i would make in the future. >> would your wife's well being, in terms of her efforts to deal with her problems, be a factor in making you not run? >> joan has courageously stated, has had a battle with alcoholism, i admire her and respect her for the fort rightness in which she faced this issue and for the efforts that she's making. >> some people ask whether or not you're enjoying this roll that you have, in the sense that you're playing cat and mouse with the president. are you doing that? >> not really. i've stated my areas of difference with the president and i'll continue to do that. >> the growing political frictions between president carter and senator kennedy became a bit more lively today. two congressman, william broadhead and thomas downey reported that during a dinner conversation with the president earlier this week, they twice

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today a formally announce that i'm a candidate for president of the united states. i could not have lived with myself, if i had stayed on the sidelines and been silent. i could not have lived with myself. nice to see you. >> how are you? >> senator. >> how are you? >> good morning. how are you? nice to see you. >> you are as handsome as your brother was. >> nice to see you. help us out now. give us a hand. >> enough of high unemployment, and enough of jimmy carter. >> i don't think i come as a candidate with all of the answers, but i come, as i think, probably over a lifetime that's been tested by a variety of

different, both challenges, tragedies, and also some successes. >> and some failures, right? >> and some failures. >> on the day after the southern primaries, kennedy was much more upset by a newspaper article than any defeat. a front page chappaquiddick story in "the new york times" which came up with almost nothing new on his actions there. kennedy was the angriest reporters have seen him in this campai campaign. >> there has been no family, the time that i have been in the public life, that has been investigated, whose personal lives have been investigated as much as my life, the life of my wife, my children. i'm not interested in the personal lives of other candidates for the presidency. >> yesterday's polls show him trailing president carter for the first time. kennedy attributed his decline to carter's high visibility during the iranian crisis. >> just as the iranian situation

had come up, president carter's ratings have went up in the polls. now, we still have inflation, talk of depression, high energy cost, the people are still hostages. so what has he done? >> well, i'm sure i'll think of something on that, but -- >> i want to thank you very much for coming out here this afternoon. thanks an awful lot. >> go, teddy. >> kennedy for president. [ speaking foreign language ] >> let's fight back. >> with the presidential nomination under way, kennedy's side says it still does not have the votes to win. kennedy's decision to withdraw from the race for president when it came, came quickly.

>> for me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. i congratulate president carter on his victory here. for all of those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. i ran for president and lost. i wanted to be president. that was not in the cards. and that's certainly not a pleasant experience.

>> for the members of my family, the 1980 campaign was a difficult experience. i am involved in a divorce, it's a painful experience. both for joan and myself and for the members of my family. ♪ i'm going to be active in terms of party affairs, active in terms of the discussions in the debate by disposition, nature, and desire. i'm an activist. i will not rest or retreat until our nation at long last hold this troop to be self-evident, that not only all men, but all people, are created equal.

you don't have to be a president to make a difference. all you have to do is care, and be involved. if the government cannot control nuclear arms then people will change the government. ronald reagan must love poor people because he's creating so many more of them. >> the bride arrived with her uncle, senator edward kennedy. he particularly looked pleased and proud at the opportunity to give away his niece. >> it was touching in so many different ways. her gown had little shamrocks on it, it was something that, you know, i think her father would have been very, very touched by. he would have been very proud of her. >> i want to read you something that jackie kennedy wrote in a

thank you vote after you gave caroline away. "i knew the carefree, youngest brother, fell a burden a hero would beg to be spared. i knew everyone was going to make it because you were always there with your love. jackie." >> that's about as nice as you can get. >> that's one of my pretty sisters, eunice. >> we grew up in a family that which public service thought to be a noble profession in which individuals should be pretty much involved in what oliver wendell holmes called the actions of our times. not just my brothers that were involved. my sister eunice starting the special olympics program, brought an enormous joy to the mentally retarded and to their families. my sister, jean, with the arts of the handicap has done

likewise. my sister, pat, has been equally active. that's been a family tradition. >> thanks a lot. >> i'm one voice and i'm one vote. but people are entitled to know what i'm going to do and why i'm going to do it. that's what this whole process is about. >> in robert bork's america there is no room at the inn for blacks and no place in the constitution for women. and in our america, there should be no seat on the supreme court for robert bork. and i urge the committee and senate to reject the nomination of mr. bork. >> so the vote 58-42 against robert bork. his nomination to the u.s. supreme court has been defeated. >> i want to sign a civil rights bill. i will not sign a quota bill. >> quota schmotas. quotas are not the issue. job discrimination is the issue.

>> senator kennedy eloquently eloquently quota schmota and agrees a veto should be overwritten. >> time to provide equal opportunity to women and minorities no ifs, ands and butts, no watered down compromises either. >> president bush is preparing to take this country unilaterally to war in the persian gulf without the approval of the congress and without the support of the american people. h the air. but with the strength of zyrtec ® , the fastest, 24-hour allergy relief, i promise not to wait as long to go for our ride. with zyrtec ® i can love the air ™ . - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion. - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu?

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police in palm beach, florida say today, late today, that the nephew of senator edward kennedy is a suspect in an alleged rape.

police say the senator also staying at the compound over easter failed to respond to inquiries about what happened the night of the alleged rape. >> edward kennedy came to court and talked an emotional good friday conversation with his sister, jean, about the death of her father and then invited son patrick and william to go out. >> we went to a bar. i wish i had gone for a long walk on the beach instead. but we did go to a bar. >> in the halls of congress, he is somewhat damaged. >> kennedy also brushed off a suggestion from fellow senator orrin hatch that he quit drinking. >> with so much controversy about his own private life. and facing a tough re-election fight, the senator appeared at the john f. kennedy school of harvard today and admitted some personal faults. >> i'm painfully aware the criticism directed at me in recent months involves far more than honest disagreement with my

positions. or the usual criticisms from the far right. it also involves the disappointment of friends. and many others who rely on me to fight the good fight. to them, i say, i recognize my own shortcomings. the faults and conduct of my private life. i realize that i alone am responsible for them. and i am the one who must confront them. >> well, i'm gratified by the verdict of the jury in palm beach. i had always believed that when all the facts were in that will would be found innocent. i suppose if there's anything good that has come out of this long experience that the renewed

closeness of our family and our friends. ♪ i'm basically a hopeful and optimistic person, and i believe deeply in hope. i believe in love, the power of love. >> you've changed. what happened? >> vicki entered my life. i never thought i was going to get married. i don't think i was ever really prepared to think in those terms again. and vicki really awakened these feelings, emotions, that i think had really been banked in my life. and that i didn't really think probably existed there anymore. so it's been a very extraordinary reawakening and

wonderful, wonderful time in my life, our lives. >> you're on the campaign trail full time now? >> absolutely. all of the time. vicki is as well. not here today. she's busy in other places. she's been a great asset. >> teddy for massachusetts. >> teddy! teddy! teddy! >> it's a very uplifting time for me. >> nice to see you. thanks very much. good to see you. >> how are you? >> did you think so? did you think so? >> feels good to get the good response. we're going to win it. >> i said when i first ran for the senate, what the senate needed was a young person with new ideas. now i say there's nothing like age and experience. i don't think i'm too old to be your united states senator, do you? i need your help, i need your vote, i need that help. ♪

>> thank you. i may not be the youngest, eventually i'll be the thinnest, but i'm going to be the fightingest candidate that you've ever have. i won't let you down. i won't let you down. i won't let you down, massachusetts. thank you. ♪ mother knew this day was coming, but she did not dread it. she accepted and even welcomed it. not as a leaving, but as a returning. she has gone to god and she is home. and at this moment she is happily presiding at a heavenly table with both of her joes, with jack, kathleen and bobby and david.

she will be there, ready to welcome the rest of us home someday. of this, i have no doubt. whatever any of us has done, whatever contribution we have made, begins and ends with rose and joseph kennedy. for all of us, dad was the spark. mother was the light of our lives. he was our greatest fan. she was our greatest teacher. >> while senator edward kennedy is the lone remaining political patriarch of this time carrying the liberal democratic mantle for massachusetts for 35 years there's a whole second generation of kennedys who have followed in the footsteps of john, bobby, and teddy. >> i owe a special debt to the man his nephews and nieces call teddy. i'm so proud to introduce my father, the senior --

>> in our family, he's never missed a first communion, a graduation or a chance to walk one of his nieces down the while. >> there were nine of us, 30 in the next generation. and 100 in the next generation. >> i'm immensely proud of the way that all of them have accepted the challenges of life. and i think making important useful contributions. i think their fathers would be very proud of them as i am. i love them all. >> now are you glad to see old kennedy? are you glad to see me? i never looked at it really in terms of the questions of a legacy. i think i always wanted to try and be a better person. i have worked hard for schools

that teach. i've always perceived my role as trying to get some things done. it's time for americans to lift their voices now in pride for our immigrant past and in pride for our immigrant future. you hear that? we are excluded from having an opportunity to debate this because the power of the insurance industry. the new deal, the new frontier and the great society are not the end of american social history. make that argument on the floor of the united states senate. our day will come again and we must keep the faith until it dawns. an issue we'll be back to fight and fight again. we ought to hear at least what the reality is of the american people ought to understand, that the parents of those servicemen ought to understand what their children are going to be faced with. whether the odds are in my favor or against me, i will continue to stand up for the people that

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thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you. i'm proud to stand with him here today and offer my help, offer my voice, offer my energy, my commitment to make barack obama the next president of the united states.