into the house. vikki and i looked at each other, assuming we had to set another unexpected place at the table. instead our mystery guests started to set up a keyboard because teddy had also invited the pianist from the boston pop so we could have proper accompaniment after dinner. and we sang every show tune we knew until the wee hours of the morning. and that was the thing about ted. he was in the same instant larger than life and completely down to earth. his record of achievement and contribution is unrivalled in the united states senate. his humanity, his compassion, his kindness, and in some ways had just as great an impact. a friend of mine told me recently the story of ted's plans to attend the funeral of

the late prime minister of israel. the day before he left for jerusalem, he called the white house and asked if it would be appropriate to bring some soil from arlington cemetery. no one knew the answer. so that day he went to the graves of his two brothers and scooped up some soil. and he carried that precious commodity in a shopping bag to the funeral of ribine. and after the ceremonies and after the crowd had dispersed away from the cameras and the press, he carefully, respectfully, lovingly, spread that soil on his grave. no publicity, just a good man doing a sweet thing.

everyone in this room has some quiet, private example of his or her own. and what's even more powerful is to think how many thousands more, many of them lining the motorcade yesterday or filing in through the doors of this library over the course of the last two days to pay their respects or signing condolence messages around the world who have private quiet examples of their own. no politician ever made me feel more that public life could be a noble calling. or better about who i was and where i came from. he loved the commonwealth. and this country. he loved the american people, but he also believed that we could be better.

and it was that vision of a better america that he went to work for every day. and millions of veterans and working people and women and people with disabilities and racial and ethnic minorities, millions of pragmatic idealists who want to believe that they can make the world better through public service are in his debt. so many i've heard in the last couple of days are asking how best to honor his legacy. i say we should live it. his legacy is to me about what we do in our own lives and communities. to keep the dream alive. to make a great country even better. it won't be easy. especially with the profound sadness we feel today that our

standard bearer has been taken from us. but it never was. even for our dear lost friend. ted kennedy sailed more often than not into the political wind in search of that better america. and he did it with skill and a grace so typical of him and his family. let us honor his life and accomplishments. by making his work our own. god bless you, vikki, and all the family. thank you. >> thank you, governor. the last time our next speaker was on the stage, he received

the john f. kennedy profile encourage award. a distinguished american, a distinguished united states senator from the state of arizona, please welcome john mccain. >> thank you, paul. thank you, as paul mentioned, i was last in this wonderful library, it was ten years ago when russ feingold and i were honored to receive the profile of courage award. ted was very gracious to my family on that occasion. it was my son jimmy's 11th birthday and ted went out of his way to make sure it was celebrated enthusiastically. he arranged a ride for us on a coast guard cutter, two birthday cakes, and led a rousing rendition of happy birthday with that booming baritone of his

drowning out all other voices as it often did on the senate floor. he was good company, my friend ted. he had the irish talent for story telling and for friendship. at the lunch he hosted for us in the family quarters on the top floor of the library, he recalled an earlier episode in our friendship. a story he delighted in retelling. it occurred on the senate floor when two freshman senators, one a democrat, and the other was a republican, neither of whom would remain long in the senate were getting a little personal with each other as they debated an issue, which must have seemed important at the time but which neither ted nor i were paying much attention to. we both happened to be on the floor at the same time and the heat of our colleagues' exchange eventually managed to get our attention. you might think -- you might just think that two more senior members of the senate would in

such a situation counsel two junior members to observe the courtesies and comedy which theoretically are supposed to distinguish our debates. but ted and i shared the sentiment that a fight not joined was a fight not enjoyed. and e ander irresistibly we were drawn into a debate which we had no particular interest in but suddenly looked like fun. i struck first, castigating the young democratic senator for abusing my republican colleague. before she could respond for herself, ted rode valiantly to her rescue. and within minutes, he and i had forgotten why we were there and what the debate was all about. we probably even forgot the names of our two colleagues. as one of us vote, the other

would circle the floor agitated and anxious to fire back. after a while, we must have thought the distance between our desks too great for either of us to hear each other clearly or that the pressure of the clerk tribie intranscribing our excha had become too distracting. we put down our microphones simultaneously and walked briskly to the well of the floor where we could continue in closer quarters and in language, perhaps too familiar to be recorded for posterity, which regrettably was still automobile enough to be overheard by a few reporters who are now leaning over the railing of the press gallery trying to ascertain just what was going on between mccain and kennedy. after we both were satisfied and had sufficiently impressed upon each other the particulars of proper senatorial comportment,

we ended our discussion and returned to the business that had brought us to the chamber in the first place. and i'm happy to report we succeeded in discouraging our colleagues from continuing their intemperate argument. they both had deserted the chamber, i was later told for i didn't notice their escape, rather puzzled if not frightened looks on their faces. when i next sought ted down the senate corridor, he was laughing, that infectious laugh of his that could wake the dead and cheer up the most beleaguered soul. he was good company, excellent company. i think i'm going to miss him more than i can say. we disagreed on most issues, but i admired his passion for his convictions, his patience with the hard and sometimes dull work of legislating and his uncanny

sense for when differences could be bridged and his cause advanced by a degree. he was a fierce advocate and no senator would oppose him in a debate without at least a little trepidation, often more than a little. we all listened to him, of course. he was hard to ignore. when we agreed on an issue and worked together to make a little progress for the country on an important issue, he was the best ally you could have. you never had even a small doubt that once his word was given in a course of action decided, he would honor the letter and the spirit of the agreement. when we work together on the immigration issue, we had a daily morning meeting with other interested senators. he and i would meet for a few minutes in advance and decide between us which members of our respective caucuses needed a little special encouragement on occasion, a little straight talk.

if a member tried to back out of a previous commitment, ted made certain they understood the consequences of their action. it didn't matter to him that the offender was a member of his own caucus. he was the most reliable, the most prepared, and the most persistent member of the senate. he took the long view. he never gave up. and though on most issues, i very much wished he would give up. he taught me to be a better senator. after labor day, i'll go back to the senate and i'll try to be as persistent as ted was and as passionate for the work. i know i'm privileged to serve there. but i think most of my colleagues would agree, the place won't be the same without him.

>> next, you'll have the joy and the privilege of viewing a video tribute to senator kennedy directed by ken burns and mark herzaw. you've heard other people speaking tonight. tonight you'll hear about the life of ted kennedy in his own words. >> the sea for me has always been a metaphor of life. i mean the sea is constantly evolving, changing, shifting, aspect of both nature and of life. that sort of exposure to the sea

is both enriching and enhancing and is fun. >> the sea, the wind, the outdoors, it is the most renewing, healing place for him and always has been. >> that's a good job. yeah. sweat it a little bit. >> he loves getting out and sailing. i think he's never more at peace and perhaps in some ways never more in touch with his family and his roots and his brothers when he's out there sailing. >> i grew up in a family that wanted to achieve in the sense of making a difference in people's lives. >> i know that ted kennedy has always been unbelievably sensitive to the accomplishments of his brothers. they were his inspiration. >> he has a legacy. to pick up where his two

brothers left off. >> 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 distinguished their lives. >> he championed the calls of those who have been left out. the poor, the elderly, our children. those without education. >> he was brought up to believe that, you know, to those too much is given, too much is required. he really feels a moral obligation to do everything possible to make this world a better place. >> i've heard senator kennedy say on many occasion that health care is not a privilege. it is a right. >> 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 health care. east and west for all americans it's a matter of right not a privilege. >> because of ted kennedy, people have things today, they're able to do things today, they're able to reach for the american dream in ways they never imagined. >> i first met the senator at something called children's congress through the juvenile diabetes research foundation. and he asked me to come to testify in front of congress about stem cell research and the support for that. if i could help someone almost as much as senator kennedy's helped me, then i'd be a very happy person. >> has given the opportunity for the best of our young people to serve in the community. >> he deeply believes that national service ought to be part of the every day life of every single american. >> he committed right away to introduce new legislation to take programs to scale to make it possible for young people all over our country to serve our

country. >> he deeply believes in service. even as a united states senator he's read every tuesday at a local school in washington, d.c. as part of an everybody wins program. >> we signed up for the reading program and i was assigned to read with senator kennedy as my reading partner. it gave me someone to want to do well for. and make proud. i'm going to commonwealth university in richmond and i'll be majoring in education. >> we're talking about a man of incredible sensitivity. he has always been there for the troops. he's always been there understanding the sacrifices that those troops made. he's been there for their families. >> we met senator kennedy for the first time in november of 2003 when we buried our son john at arlington national cemetery. >> their son was lost because his humvee was not up armored and they've really dedicated their lives to making sure that

other men and women don't suffer the same fate. >> john died just after his 20th birthday. senator kennedy agreed to call hearings. within six months of those hearings, all troops in iraq had body armor. and to that i owe the senator. >> brian and his wife alma turned that enormous personal tragedy into a remarkable force for change. >> senator kennedy was -- had been a ghost to our family before i was born. he remembers where his mother was, where his father was, when they came to town his brother joseph was killed. we share a wound that doesn't heal. and a deep and abiding love for this country. and senator kennedy taught me that government can function for the common man.

>> his patriotism, his family, his faith, really. those three things are intrinsic to who he is. and he's strong for all of us, and he's funny and he's sort of leading the way, he's the pied piper in our family. >> what do we call the one that's way, way, way at the tippy top? >> oh, no, the -- fishermen? >> fisherman. >> don't tell me you want to put the fisherman on the other side now, dad. >> the year i was born, president kennedy let out words the torch had been passed to a new generation of americans. he was right, it had. it was passed to his youngest brother. from the battles of the 1960s to the battles of today, he has

carried that torch, lighting the way for all who share his american ideals. >> to see the day when president barack obama and ted kennedy would be moving progressive legislation through the congress to help some of the most vulnerable people in our society. >> we'll break the old gridlock and finally make health care what it should be in america, a fundamental right for all, not just an expensive privilege for the few. >> the people in this country are going to respond to the hopeful. it's going to be a very, very dramatic and important alteration and change. and it's one that i'm looking forward to being part of.

>> what a treat. i now have the privilege of welcoming the friend and colleague of senator kennedy's. and now senior senator of the commonwealth of massachusetts, john kerry. vicky and teddy, kara, patrick, karen, caroline, thank you for

the privilege of sharing some words here today. about my friend and my colleague of a quarter of a century. from the moment of fateful diagnosis 14 months ago until he left us, we saw grace and courage, dignity and humility, joy and laughter, and so much love and gratitude lift out on a daily basis that our cup does run over. how devastating the prognosis was as ted left mgh with his family waving to all june a year ago. and that he lived the next 14 months in the way that he did. optimist optimistic, full of hope, striving and accomplishing still.

that he did that is in part a miracle, yes. but it's equally a triumph of the love and the care that vicky and their children and all who cherished him gave him in such abundance. in many ways, i think it's fair to say that this time, these last months were a gift to all of us. in the last months of his life were in many ways the sweetest of seasons. because he saw how much we love him, how much we respect him and how unbelievably grateful we are for his stunning years of service and friendship. and what a year he had, my friends. he accomplished more in that span of time than many senators do in a lifetime. mental health parody, the tobacco act, the health care

bill out of his committee. he spoke at the democratic convention, he wrote his memoirs, and he was there for the signing of the edward m. kennedy service act and received the medal of freedom from the president and the knighthood from the queen of england. i think many of you who were there would agree with me that perhaps one of the most poignant moments of all was when he was awarded an honorary degree from harvard. his staff through the years was gathered in the front. and friends and family and admirers were scattered throughout the audience and filled the room and vice president-elect biden was there. and you have no idea how hard ted practiced and worked to be able to do that in the convention and his appearance at the white house to make a speech that lived up to his high standards. he took the stage at harvard and for a few moments we all worried that it would be difficult to pull off.

and then before you know it, his voice began to soar and the pace picked up and he inspired again with a stunning restatement of his purpose in public life. when it was over, the applause never wanted to end, he stayed on the stage reaching out to us and we to him. and we wanted him to stay there forever. i first met ted kennedy when i was 18 years old. as a volunteer for his first senate campaign in the summer before i went to college. then i met him again when i returned from vietnam and we veterans encamped on the mall in washington. it was ted kennedy who had the courage to come down to the mall one night and in a tent listen to us talk about vietnam. we were controversial, but ted broke the barriers and other senators followed. he worked his heart out for me

in the presidential race of 2004. and he made the difference in iowa. when we were down in the polls and i was slugging it out there, ted brought his humor, his energy, and his eloquence to davenport. there we were just two weeks before the caucuses and his voice boomed out in this room, you voted for my brother, you voted for my other brother, you didn't vote for me. and as the crowd roared with laughter, ted bellowed, but we're back here for john kerry and if you vote for john kerry, i'll forgive you. you can have three out of four, he said. and i'll love you and i'll love iowa. and let me tell you, iowa loved him. we had a lot of fun there. he would open an event and he'd come out and he'd say, i want to talk to you about a bold,

handsome, intelligent leader, a man who should not only be president, but who should end up on mt. rushmore, but enough about me, now i'll talk about john kerry. after that agonizing tuesday night in november when we fell so short in one state, there were ted and vicky on a wednesday morning sitting with theresa and me in a kitchen in boston as we prepare to concede. he was always there when you needed him. and so were sunny and splash when you didn't. once when we were at a senate retreat ted had just spoken and joe biden got up to make a point. and as joe got more forceful in his argument, he started to gesture and he took a step towards ted. boom, they were up on their feet barking wildly defending kennedy

territory with a vengeance. and ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in history we witnessed a biden rhetorical retreat. and i have to tell you, one of my really favorite moments was ted campaigning with my daughter vanessa who is here campaigning in new mexico. they were visiting an indian reservation on the tribal medicine man wanted to bestow a blessing. he took a feather and chanted and asked that ted and vanessa stand side by side and extend their hands and bow their heads. and with a sacred feather he touched their feet and touched their foreheads, and touched their hands. all the while chanting away. and when he finished, ted leaned over to vanessa and whispered, i think we just got married.

well, you can imagine. a couple of months later she got a note from teddy which said, no matter what happens, we will always have new mexico. one of the frame notes in ted's senate office was a thank you from a colleague for a gift, a special edition of "profiles and courage." this is what it said. i brought it home and reread it. what an inspiration, thank you, my friend for your many courtesies. if the world only knew. it was signed by trent lott, the republican leader of the senate. indeed, if everyone only knew. when george wallace was wounded in the assassination attempt, the first to visit him was ted kennedy. when joe biden underwent brain surgery for an aneurysm, the

first to board the train to wilmington was ted kennedy. when jesse helm underwent heart valve surgery, he told his constituents back in north carolina, it's no piece of cake, but it sure beats listening to ted kennedy on the senate floor. so ted wrote a note to jesse saying, i'd be happy to send you tapes of my recent senate speeches if that will help your speedy recovery. and just two weeks ago when i was in the hospital after hip surgery, just like chris dodd, there was ted kennedy on the phone asking how i was doing with all that he was dealing with. in his life, as we all know, ted knew the dark knight of loss. and i think that's why his empathy was global and deeply personal. after my father died of cancer just days before the convention in 2000, there was a knock at

the door completely unexpected and standing there on the front porch was ted kennedy dropping by to hug and talk and just to pass time with us. for 25 years, i was privileged to work by his side learning from the master. and over the years, i've received hundreds of handwritten notes from ted, some funny, some touching, a few correcting me. all of them special treasures now. he thanked me for my gift of the catholic study bible commenting my mother would be very grateful to you for keeping me in line. he thanked me for a particularly challenging charter lift home after 9/11 when it was hard to get anything in the air. and he wrote, here's a riddle for you. what do you get when you make three calls to the faa, two calls to the secretary of transportation, and three calls to signature flight support? you get a great trip to boston.

his way of saying thank you. and the gift of the vintage bottle concluding i just hope i've aged as well as this wine. the personal touch ted brought to life extended, we know, well beyond the senate colleagues. it reflected the kind of man he was and the kind of laws that he wrote. for 1,000 days in the white house as chris dodd mentioned, president kennedy inspired. for 80 days on the presidential campaign trail, robert kennedy gave us reason to believe in hope again. and for more than 17,000 days as the united states senator, ted kennedy changed the course of history as few others have. without him, there might still be a military draft. the war in vietnam might have lasted longer. there might have been delays in granting the voting rights act,

in passing medicare or medicaid. soviet might have been ignored, and who would have been there to help them as ted did? without him, we might not have stood up against the partide as forcefully as we did. if everyone only knew. without ted, 18-year-olds might not be able to vote. there might not be a martin luther king day, meals on wheels, student loans, equal funding for women's college sports, health insurance, the family medical leave act, the americans with disabilities act, workplace safety, americorps, if everyone only knew. he stood against judges that would turn back the clock on constitutional rights, stood against the war in iraq, his proudest vote, and for nearly four decades and all through his

final days, he labored with all of his might to make health care a right for all americans. and we will do that in his honor. in these last months, every visit ted made to the senate, elicited and unstoppable outpouring of affection, tears welled up in the eyes of republicans and democrats. everyone missed his skills, booming call to arms and conscience. on his last visit, chris dodd and i stood on the back row beside his desk and listened to teddy regale us with an invitation to his efforts to throw out a ball at the red sox

opening game. he laughed and poked fun at how reluctant his hand and muscles were to obey his commands. i was in awe of this moment of humility and selhumor. and as he so often said over the years, we have to take issues seriously, but never take ourselves too seriously. he was a master of that too. and one of the great lessons he taught me. in the end, his abiding gift was his incomparable love of life and his commitment to make better the life of the world. in between as time changing the world, he found time to capture it in marvelous paintings. he was a talented, gifted artist and as we know an incurable romantic. who else would've thought to hide their engagement ring on a coral reef in st. croix as they were swimming and diving so

vicky would find it. it never occurred to him that the waters might wash the ring away. but one thing's certain, their love endured from then until now and it will endure forever. massachusetts has always had its own glorious love affair with the sea. like his brothers before him, salt water was in his veins. teddy lived by the sea and he lived joyously on it. the evening he passed away, i looked out at the ocean where gray sky met gray water. no horizon, the sky almost seemed to be in mourning. it was not a time for sailing, but the next afternoon as i sat at his home, i looked out at a perfect nantucket sound and i thought to myself with certainty, he's sailing.

jack, joe, bobby on the fore deck, rosemary, eunice, kathleen, pat, trading stories with their parents and teddy at the helm steering his steady course. sail on, my friend, sail on. >> the next speaker is one who has seen senator kennedy's name and the name of his colleagues. another great american who sat across the aisle who served our

country well. in the united states senate, please welcome senator orrin hatch. >> this is a tremendous honor to be in this wonderful city and this state where our revelation was begun. i'm just so grateful to be here. vicky, teddy, patrick, kara, ethel and jane. and all the rest of the kennedy family. it's a great honor for me to be with you here today. to talk about a man i have so much regard for. so much reverence for. with whom i've done battle for 33 years. and i have enjoyed every minute of it.

like two fighting brothers, to be honest with you. there's a lot of things i can say about ted kennedy's career, but what i'd like to do is take a few minutes to talk about ted kennedy the man and ted kennedy, my friend. by the time i came to the senate in 1977, teddy was already a giant among senators. as a republican coming from utah, i stated numerous times on the campaign trail that i plan to come to washington to fight ted kennedy. in fact, i used to say that kennedy's name was my very best fundraiser in the country. when i came to washington, i hadn't the slightest idea that i would eventually have a strong working relationship with and love for the man that i came to fight. and if you would've told me that he would become one of my closest friends in the world, i

probably would've suggested that you need professional help. but that's exactly what happened. people have called teddy and me the odd couple. which was certainly true. there are few men with whom i've had less in common. ted was born into a famous well to do family in boston, he attended private schools and harvard university, was politically liberal, and liberal in his lifestyle, at least until he married vicky. who set him straight, by the way. i grew up poor in a working class family in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. i attended public school. and the harvard of utah, byu -- that should get a bigger laugh than that. i was laughing at it, i'll tell you that. great school, however.

while ted often played the role of the irish man, i was the tea totalli inling mormon bishop. and he was so proud to discover i'm also irish. we were able to work out a lot of things together. and that was due in large part to teddy's willingness to work with those who share his goals even if they had different ideas on how to reach those goals. one of the defining moments came when i met two families from utah. the parents of these families were humbled and hard working, they were prudent, they were frugal, and they were able to provide food and shelter for their children, but the one necessity they couldn't afford was health insurance. this was what inspired me to work with ted in creating the s-chip program, which continues to provide health care and coverage for millions of children throughout the world.

and which passed with bipartisan support even though it came at a seemingly inopportune time politically speaking. over the years ted and i worked successfully to get both republicans and democrats on board for causes such as assistance to aids victims. we passed the three aids bills, and equal rights for the disabled. our latest collaboration came this year in the form of the edward m. kennedy serve america act. a new law designed to power and encourage private citizens of all ages to volunteer in their community. i named the bill after ted. i don't think any of these bills could pass if it were not for teddy's willingness to put bipartisanship ahead of partisanship. in 1962, president john f.

kennedy famously said "we must think and act not only for the moment, but for our time" i'm reminded of a story of a great french marshal who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. the gardener objected the tree would not reach maturity for 100 years, the marshal replied, "in that case, there is no time to lose. plant it this afternoon." the president's wisdom was not lost on his youngest brother. by force of will driven by the sense of immediacy that he brought to every endeavor, ted kennedy had the ability to take actions today that might not bear fruit until a distant tomorrow. like all good leaders, when he struck out on a mission, he was able to inspire many to follow him. until the job was done. no matter how long it took or how hard the task was, that is not to suggest that working with ted on a difficult piece of

legislation with sheer drudgery, although sometimes it could be utterly fatiguing. more often, and this is what most of us who work closely with him or against him will miss, ted kennedy would bring a sense of joy to even the most difficult, contentious, legislative negotiating session. while many of my more conservative constituents have run me over the coals for just being willing to sit in the same room with teddy kennedy, the truth is he and i didn't agree on much. we didn't agree on a lot of things. we sat next to each other in the health committee for the better part of two decades. some may not remember this, but there was a time when smoking was allowed during the committee meetings and hearings. and during that time you could always tell when teddy and i were in an argument or were fighting by the amount of cigar smoke he blew my way as a non-smoking mormon. if there was a particularly strong disagreement, he would just sit back in his chair puffing smoke my way giving me

an actual headache to go along with the political headaches he gave to all of us on the republican side. other times in committee on the floor or even in the press, teddy would lay into me with the harshest red meat liberal rhetoric you can imagine. but just minutes later, he'd come over and put his arm around me and ask, how'd i do, warren? i'll not tell you every response i made to him. of course this wasn't spiteful. teddy just knew how to push people's buttons. it was one of the qualities that made him such an effective senator. and for those who were lucky enough to become his friends. it was a source of no small amount of laughter. it was in the late 1980s when i knew that i'd finally made it into teddy's inner circle. i was working out in the senate gym one day in december when

teddy came in and asked if i was going to be at his party that night. i'm ashamed to admit i'd been in the senate over a decade and i hadn't heard about the annual kennedy staff christmas party. those who have been to one or more of though parties will agree that the different side of teddy was often on display. at that first party i attended, teddy came out and did a surprisingly accurate and hilarious impersonation of elvis presley. tight jump suit and all. he looked awful as far as i was concerned. then he joined the staff performing skits making fun of ronald reagan, dan quayle, and even himself. it's really too bad that teddy was never asked to host "saturday night live." but of course serving in the senate doesn't really leave you with enough time to do that sort of thing. just ask john mccain.

whenever teddy and i would introduce a bill together, teddy would tell reporters that if he and i were on the same bill, it was obvious that one of us hadn't read it. this always got a huge laugh as it did now and i was usually left this grinning pretending it was the first time i'd ever heard him say that. so one time i decided to become prepared right after teddy made his remark, i pushed out a copy of the bill that was heavily highlighted and said, here you go, ted, you can have my copy, the important parts are already underlined. i think ted got a bigger laugh out of that than all of the reporters that were there. well, complementing teddy's sense of humor was his personal generosity. one occasion after a particularly late night in the senate, i have to say that teddy was feeling no pain at that time. he was with his friend chris

dodd and my friend. i did what my former aa asked me to do. he called me one day, it was fra manson and he'd become the mormon church mission president in boston, massachusetts, presiding over 200 young mormon ministers. so when he called me he said frank manson, he said could i ask you a favor? and i said sure. he said would you be willing to speak to my 200 young missionaries up here in boston? i said well for you frank, i will. he said can i ask another favor? i said sure, he said will you ask ted kennedy to come and speak too. i said i don't know. i said but i'll ask him. he said can i ask another favor? i said my gosh, what's that? he said will you ask teddy to get samuel hall for the meeting.

i said oh, my goodness, i'll ask him. so on this evening when teddy and chris were feeling no pain, i walked off the floor and teddy put his arm around me he said i want you to come up go sailing with me. yes, i want you to do that, i said great, now teddy, i have a favor to ask of you. he said what's that? i said do you remember frank manson, he said, oh, yeah, good guy. well, you know, he's asked that you and i come and speak -- i said he's now the mission president in the mormon church over 200 young mormon missionaries in boston, massachusetts. my hometown, and i said yeah. forgive me. i've asked vicky to forgive me already. i said -- he said what about it? i said well, how about he would like you and me to come up and to speak to his 200 young missionaries. and he said done, just like

that. i said well i have another favor to ask of you from him. he said what's that? he would like you to get -- done he said. so the next day i got into the office and i got this nice letter from teddy and got it and i saw him later in the day and his hands are shaking and he said orrin, what else did i agree to last night? my eyes start to water, my nose starts to run, and it's just a mess. but in any event, teddy kennedy and orrin hatch appear before 200 young mormon missionaries and samuel hall and they will never forget the tremendous talk that he gave to them on that day. well, all i can say is that it was really something.

he didn't try to weasel out of it. instead he produced and gave a beautiful speech. i was impressed as usual. and those missionaries will never forget that. and those they were of a different faith, he commended them for their willingness to serve a cause bigger than themselves and thanked them for their selflessness. this was just one example of the graciousness that my dear friend ted kennedy. there was another time when the mormon church was nearing completion of its temple here in boston, belmont, i think. i was approached by several people working in the temple and informed that the city would not allow a spire to be placed on the top of the temple with an angel on top of it as is customary on mormon temples. i immediately called ted and asked for help. not long after that conversation, he called me back

and said "all of western massachusetts will see that angel gabriel on the top of the mormon temple." though i was tempted to leave it alone, i had to inform teddy, it was actually the angel of moronai a prominent figure in the faith. and at that point teddy replied, does this mean i'm going to get another book of mormon for christmas? of course he did. of course teddy was always respectful of my faith and that of others, but everyone around us knew that i liked to give him a hard time. one thing that has been recounted in the tributes of the last few days has been teddy's dedication to his family. whether it's been to his own children, to his mother, to his nieces and nephews, or to his siblings, i can attest to this. after i'd spent some time

getting to know the kennedy family, eunice started interceding for me when ted and i disagreed. i love to this day eunice kennedy shriver. and i love their family. let me just say bobby's one of my best friends. and so are the other shriver family members. i want to thank them for what they did for this country. well, whenever we weren't getting along really well, eunice told teddy one day. she said, i don't want you mistreating that nice young senator hatch from utah. i'm only a couple years younger than he. but, you know, it was -- it was just wonderful to have her stand up for me.

and when he and i had really tough trouble reaching an agreement on really important occasions and he'd get bull headed and his back would go in the air, i said all right, teddy, i'm going to go see eunice. and he'd say, oh, no, no, don't do that. we'll work it out, he said. we'll work it out. eunice had a great effect on both of us and we both loved her very, very much. but like teddy had for his family provided him with insight and empathy for others. this was reflected in his views on policy and in his dealings with his friends. when i lost my parents, i might add when teddy lost his wonderful mother, i snuck up here to boston, i didn't tell him i was coming and i just thought i would sneak into the back of this beautiful catholic church and pay my respect. but they caught me and he moved me right up close to the family. when i lost my parents, ted was there with empathetic words and

sincere sympathy. ted was a man experienced with facing family tragedy. having grieved more than his share. and yet he became the stronger for it. he and vicky flew to utah to attend my mother's funeral. i didn't know they were coming, it was a gesture that will always mean a great deal to me. it was in that humble mormon church and i had to give the eulogy so he was right on the front row with my family and i just gave him the business as much as everybody else. but it was wonderful, and i'll never forget it. i loved vicky kennedy, as well. she's been a tremendously wonderful wife to my friend ted. i said publicly that i'd been present to witness two major changes in ted kennedy's life and career. the first was after the elections of 1980.

freed from the pressures that come with presidential ambitions, teddy returned to the senate with a singular focus on accomplishing his legislative goals, on building consensus and doing good for the american people. the second change was for those that knew teddy, i think much more profound. it was when he met and married vicky. before he met vicky, teddy was often burdened by the stresses that came with his life. whether it was being patriarch to one of the most visible families in the country, or being a prominent legislator, true enough on the surface it seemed that teddy had life that most could only dream of. i think at times the pressure that came with that life left him unable to enjoy it. that all changed when he met vicky. vicky was the love and light of teddy's life. their marriage in many respects saved teddy. he was forever a different man.

he was still the fierce, stubborn leader in the senate he always was, but it was clear from that time on that he enjoyed his life and the role he played far more than he had in the past. teddy and vicky's marriage made him a better man and a better senator. well, i remember one time he got mad as heck at me and demanded to come to the office and i brought him in and he started yelling at me and i said wait a minute, i wrote a song for you and vicky. he said you did? i said yeah, you want to hear it? and he said, oh, yeah, he forgot about his anger. i had a little cassette and i played it for him. and he said i've got to had that. it was called "souls along the way" that song was in "ocean's twelve," you couldn't hear it, but it was in there. but here i was working as usual. i think july 3rd of that year in salt lake city and i get this phone call from ted kennedy.

he was out on his boat, you know, as usual. and he said orrin, he said i just played that song for vicky. he said she's over there crying at the end of the boat. he said she loved it. and i said that's great. why aren't you working like i have to work? and he just laughed because he knew that his life was a far different one from mine. and i laughed too because i knew it, as well. on my way back today, let me just say that i -- i thought about our relationship and how much i sorely miss him. couple months ago we met for our last hour together, had pictures taken together, that means so much to me. and i have to say it was a wonderful occasion. and i -- i miss fighting in public and joking with him in the background. i miss all the things that we knew we could do together. and he would do with others, as well.

on the way back today i -- you know, i just thought about the apostle paul who shortly before his death wrote, for i am now ready to be offered. and the time of my departure is at hand. i fought a good fight, i have finished my course, i have kept the faith. so as i came back, i just wanted to write a few thoughts down in my own handwriting and i hope you won't mind if i read them to you just before i finish. some are weak and some are strong. some people go along to get along. some people are larger than life, some are born in poverty, some are born in wealth. some are like a flashing light that dissipates in air. some are like a gift of life who never find a spare. some fulfill their destiny, others lose each day, some are

filled with daily joy while others waste away. some are like my liberal friend, god be with you until we meet again. in the end the good things won. he leaves the earth a better place. in the end, we all can smile, he cared for all the human race. in the end, we all look back and see the many things. in the end we all look up, he carried -- he's carried there on angels' wings. in the end, those in repose are greeting as we speak. in the end, the darling rose no longer has to seek. i will miss my irish friend. god be with you, till we meet again. god bless this family. god bless all of you. thank you.