when jack died, it was bobby. and when bobby died, it was teddy. and after they were all dead, he remained on the scene for decades as a public figure, as a senator, and somebody who believed in the causes that they had believed in and tried to carry them forward. >> senator edward kennedy spent decades in congress fighting for liberal causes. his legacy, public service and his concern for america's least powerful. as he said so many years ago, the work goes on, the cause endures, and the dream will never die. that's all for this edition of "headliners and legend," i'm lester holt. thank you for watching. >>> the kennedy brothers, they stirred their rival's blood. richard nixon put it this way, when you beat a kennedy, you beat the best. the trouble was, nobody did following the death of senator edward kennedy, here is the hardball political story how these extraordinary brothers sought the american presidency. >>> let the word go forth from this time -- >> he made this the best generation. >> let us offer new hope. >>> in the 1950s, politics meant

when jack died, it was bobby. and when bobby died, it was teddy. and that after they were all dead he remained on the scene for decades as a public figure, as a senator, and somebody who believed in the causes that they had believed in and tried to carry them forward. >> senator edward kennedy spent decades in congress fighting for liberal causes. his legacy, public service, and his concern for america's least powerful. as he said so many years ago, the work goes on, the cause endures, and the dream will never die. that's all for this edition of "headliners & legends." i'm lester holt. thanks for watching. >>> the kennedy brothers they stirred the country's blood and maddened their rivals, bill sapphire, richard nixon's speechwriter put it this way, when you beat a kennedy, you beat the best, but the problem is nobody did. following the death of senator edward kennedy, here's the "hardball" political story of how these extraordinary brothers sought the american presidency. >> let the words go forth. >> we have the capacity to make this the best gen

bobby went on to win in indiana and then in nebraska.e lost the oregon primary to mccarthy, a first for a kennedy in presidential politics. to have any chance, bobby needed to best mccarthy in california. on june 4th, 1968, he did just that. and won in south dakota, too. for a brief moment, bobby was atop a wave of excitement that might, just might have secured him the nomination. >> my thanks to all of you and now it's on to chicago and let's win there. >> is there a doctor? is there a doctor? >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m. today, june 6th, 1968. he was 42 years old. >> i believe that robert kennedy would have won and i think he could have defeated richard nixon. no nixon, war end, no watergate? what would this country have been like over the ensuing 40 years? >> present at the hospital, the youngest kennedy brother, ted. >> i saw him briefly, his face just contorted with grief. i've never seen a man so torn as he was that night for all kinds of reasons. >> my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyon

marty, we were talking about bobby mercer and bobby mercer and kay and his family almost flew back torman that night. >> well, thurman wanted them to, he had stayed with them and after the last game in chicago on wednesday night, the mercers drove thurman out to where his plane was -- his jet was and bobby going i'm not going up in that thing, thurman. >> tim: didn't bobby and his family drive down to tend of the runway and wave good-bye to them? >> it was actually the opening of the book because it felt like a scene from some 1950's movie with bobby and kay like waving as thurman took off. just a real american little tale of, you know, to open the book with. >> tim: well, this book is an american tale and we'll be right back with a final segment with marty and tippy right after this. >>> pharaohs servethe finest italian cuisine in a warm, cozy setting in manhattan. for an affordable and delectable business breakfast, lunch or dinner, pharaohs is open until 2:00 daily. well, do they know this malibu offers an epa estimated 33 mpg highway? eran a comparable toyota camry or honda accord

when jack died, it was bobby. and when bobby died, it was teddy. and after they were all dead, he remained on the scene for decades as a public figure, as a senator, and somebody who believed in the causes that they had believed in and tried to carry them forward. >> senator edward kennedy spent decades in congress fighting for liberal causes. his legacy, public service and his concern for america's least powerful. as he said so many years ago, the work goes on, the cause endures, and the dream will never die. that's all for this edition of "headliners and legend," i'm lester holt. thank you for watching. >> teddy. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in new york. ted kennedy was the last hurrah, the big baritone out there demanding justice for the left out people, the african-americans, native americans, the old person, the immigrant family that wanted to be american. the sick scared person waiting in the er for hours with something really wrong. why would a big looking guy like him, a rich guy, spend his life worrying about

bobby became passionate. i think teddy followed it one further step toward a real committed liberal on civil rights. >> yeah, i think that's absolutely right. that's the way it happened. but you know, the whole family i would argue might have evolved with the country. so it's very difficult to say what jack kennedy would have been like in 1968 and or what bobby kennedy would have been like in 1972. the country was moving so rapidly and changing so rapidly. it's difficult to -- >> the other thing that happened was when jimmy carter became president, i think ted kennedy saw the legacy of the democratic party as he read it going back to roosevelt under assault. >> yeah. >> because jimmy carter as you know, was a different kind of democrat. and i think. >> he was grover cleveland. >> and teddy move even more to the left to challenge jimmy carter and preserve the legacy of the old democratic party. >> gentlemen, all three of you, as they say in massachusetts, you're the smart ones. thanks very much. you are the sm

>> he became, just as his brother, bobby, had become, and he picked up that banner after bobby was assassinated. he became the voice of fashion for people who were down and out, people on the margins, people who were poor and didn't have an equal opportunity and equal shot in life. that's why he was so beloved by that base. he took on his own class. here in hyannis part, the motorcade has just left. it is a very wonderful neighborhood. a lot of friendlyness here. these are also very expensive homes. you don't have a sea view out here for less than $3 million, $4 million. they have several homes here. he came from a class with money. his father, obviously, made a lot of money. i think what endeared him to so many americans was that he went against and did become a strong champion of minimum wage, of national health insurance, education reform, no child left behind and many others. >> as a matter of fact, david, i am going to go through a list here. listen to this list. murph, i want to bring you into this conversation. i think this is interesting. this is a list of the meem who have been helped

in that package was a huge picture of bobby kennedy. bobby was my hero, political hero. signed a note and said bobby would have loved working with you. i did, too. and then he said in a letter, if andrew ever needs anything, anything at all, call me up and let me know. we will take care of him. we will take care of your family. this, again, i was of no -- in fact, jon meacham, what made this more remarkable i used teddy kennedy like all good republicans a punch line in my fund-raisering. he helped me a lot more than other republican politicians. that didn't matter to him. somebody was in need. in this case, my son. that's remarkable. >> it is remarkable grace. it is the great legislative virtue and human virtue of believing to much is given much is expected which he was -- driven into him by his mother and she also understood, i think, on a practical level this morning's foe might be this afternoon's ally. and so there was human grace and kind of calculation to it. >> we are going to be following the events this morning live as they happen in boston. there's going to be

teddy being more liberal than bobby. bobby more liberal than jack. why did they think of themselves as a minority, a little person, rather than joining the upper class like the other irish did? >> teddy was i think one of the few politicians that really enjoyed campaigning. a lot of them do it as a painful duty. teddy really enjoyed it. the older he got the more i think he resembled tip o'neill who really loved campaigning and loved to talk to ordinary people. that was a great gift because it infused and animated his own legislation. he combined the two. he had street smarts and he understood legislation. it's a great combination. >> tell me about the differences among the three brothers. you covered them all. >> oh, boy, bobby did not have much time for the senate. he was abrasive is too easy a word. dirkson told me once that when dirkson was approached by bobby about some legislation, asked for republican prospects, and dirkson in his deep voice said, well, senator, i think it's going to be difficult to get votes, and then bobby says, you've hated

and then sent me this wonderful picture of bobby, bobby kennedy. a wonderful note on it bobby would have loved working with you. i have great respect. all these kind things he didn't have to do. here's a guy that was in congress. he's leading. he can't do us any good anymore. we don't need his vote. we don't need anything. ted kennedy stops and took a great deal of time to write that letter, to send that picture, to do some very thoughtful things and that's, you know, you always hear people talking about character is what you do when nobody's looking. we always hear the bad side of that with ted kennedy, what he did when people weren't looking, when things blew up in his face. there are so many other stories about what he was doing and he knew he wouldn't get a headline. he knew that it wasn't going to help him politically but he made these small gestures to help people who could never help him back but he did it and he touched so many people's lives that way and, pat buchanan, you've heard these stories time and time again about ted kennedy. again

he was really terriblyhaken up by bobby's death.ed toail all night long byimself in the days d weeks after that hpened, just, uh, just sling. atnarror: for o months, edward kennedy mained out of the public eye na once, he drove from hynis port wtoashing hi to sign papers at his fice, but when he got there, he was unable, he said, to go in and face themll. instead, whout getting out of h car, he turned around and drove home again. just 36, head become the effective head of an extended family, responsible in pt for the welfare of 16 ildren. i give you senator kendy. (appuse) i retire from puic life. to tse who have soritten, my deep thanks for youkindness and for youroncern. buthere is no safety iniding, so tay, i resume my public responsibities to the people of massachetts. like my three brotrs before me, i pick up fallen standard. sustained by their memor of our priceless years tether, i shall try to carryorward that scial commitment to jtice, to excellence, to urage that distinguied their lives. (applause) doris kearnsoodwin: all o

bobby, jack kennedy who you work for and ted. >> bobby was more passionate. emotional. jack was more intellectual and perhaps more eloquent, i say immodestly. and ted was more at home in the united states senate. his two older brothers were impatient with the deliberate, as they call it, pace of the senate where so little gets done, and procedure is so important. ted was willing to work with that. he was also willing with his genial personality and fabulous smile to reach across the aisle and work with republicans who were willing to join him and co-sponsor legislation for causes in which they both believed. and it was quite a conservative republican who once told me when ted kennedy gets up on the senate floor to speak, we all pay attention. because we know he's done his homework. we know he has not only a terrific staff, but a terrific mind and what he has to say on an issue is going to be worth hearing. >> it's great having you on, ted sorenson, one of my heros. the greatest speech writener history. we're going to have much more on the life of senator ted kennedy. we

bobby showed him off, introduced him to the whole office. at the time, frank had just become a father again too. his son ben had been born a few weeks earlier so bobby went over to frank's desk held up the baby and said frank, say hello to dougy, he's just finished reading, camu. frank laughed and without missing a beat he said, senator that's fabulous. you and dougy have to meet bench. he's just finished reading complete works of shakespeare. and he continued and next week he's going to read it all again right side up. >> you know that remind please of - i think in reading part of the speech that bobby kennedy gave in indianapolis after the death of martin luther king was it there he quoted, escalas? at one point you talked about writing speech on the way to the place in there but he ended up off the cuff. >> i wasn't writing speech but i was writing ideas for a speech but we never got it to because the police in indianapolis abandoned our motorcade when it got in the less prosperous part of town? >> just left you? >> yeah. >> why? >> the p

bobby passionately. then teddy clearly a civil rights champion.em especially on issues like south africa. now barack obama is the first african-american president. he inherits not only the kennedy aura but he is an african-american as well so he has a lot of responsibility. >> your special tonight on the kennedy brothers? >> it will give you a real sense of the role teddy played in that saga. >> you can see more of this on "hardball" at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern time. reaction continues to pour into the death of ted kennedy. and up next, we'll hear how lawmakers are reacting to the death of the lion in the senate, and plus we'll talk to reverend jesse jackson on what impact kennedy had on the civil rights movement in america. and how will his death affect the long-standing goal of reforming health care in america. we'll talk it over with our special coverage as it continues here on msnbc. ♪ i never thought i would have a heart attack, but i did. you need to talk to your doctor about aspirin. you need to be your own advocate. be sure to talk to youroct

with bobby he felt he couldn't do that. with teddy he could. >> rosemary kennedy, what was -- this was of course the mentally disabled sister, senator kennedy's relationship, the impact she had on him? >> well, it's interesting. in that family jack was ted's godfather. rosemary was his god mother. and if you imagine, in this family, just the sadness and the tragedies that came one after another and yet ted kennedy continued to be such a positive person. think about when rosemary, when she was lobotomized, a botched lobotomy and just disappeared from the family when he was 8 years old. she went to a nursing home and never had much connection since then. i think there was a huge void in the family and particularly about this sister he didn't really know. >> kathleen kennedy of course also died tragically. >> yes, again, 8 years old when rosemary disappeared. 12 years old when joe jr. is killed. 16 when kathleen is killed in a plane crash in europe. this series of events long before the assassination that became the fixed poin

bobby kennedy would go after the bad guys.nnedy was about redemption, reconciliation, and reaching across the aisle. but over a period of time, kennedy's, just, tenacity, and his ability to survive the political cycles was remarkable. and i think once he lost in 1980 and realized that his presidential aspirations were over and found a new role for himself, the one guy that was willing to say, i'm a liberal. bill clinton was saying i'm a new democrat and others were kind of abandoning the new deal and the great society and the new frontier, but not ted kennedy. and at that point, he became a folk hero on the left and he widened what was the robert kennedy coalition of '68, and to the point today, he is literally beloved by the disenfranchised of america. >> john king, it can't be understated, or overstated, i should say, the effect that his second wife, vickie, has had on his life. >> reporter: without a doubt, around southern. the last 17 years of ted kennedy was a man who, not perfect, but had escaped so many of the dark shad

two lesser known names, chris kennedy, also the son of bobby, in chicago. he said he will not run for senator or governor in illinois, at least not yet. and there's bobby shriver, out of california. many say there's higher office awaiting him. on the second part of that question, charlie that's really where the sadness is here in hyannis port tonight. who will take over that role in the family, that bpatriarch? as you looked at the pictures today, as they prepared to get into the limousines, there was no clear picture of who will emerge to lead the family. as one woman here on the street walked up to us earlier today, she said to me, shaking her head this is such a sad day. it will really never be the same here. and she didn't even know the family. just had been part of the kennedy mystique here, charlie. >> all right, david muir in t, s to you. >>> can you find video and interactive pages by going to our special section at abcnews.com. >>> and still ahead on "world news," the victim of a high profile kidnapping has just surfaced, is years after she vanishe

. >> reporter: john and bobby and ted kennedy actually served together in washington for less than a year before tragedy. >> something has happened in the motorcade. >> misfortune strikes the kennedy family once again. >> reporter: less than a year after his brother's assassination, ted kennedy himself barely survived a small plane crash. >> it's onto chicago, and let's win there. >> reporter: then, in 1968, brother bobby was assassinated. >> my brother need not be idealized, nor enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. to be remembered simply 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. >> reporter: although the grief and loss he experienced was crushing, ted kennedy took up the mantel and became the patriarch of the kennedy family. >> i shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, to courage that distinguished their lives. >> senator edward m. kennedy drove a car off a narrow bridge on martha's vineyard, massachusetts. kennedy survived, but a young woman in the c

jack kennedy and bobby kennedy always felt that the senate was a weigh station. ted kennedy, needless to say, took it very seriously. >> seriously he did. and you see the distinguished guests, about 1,500 people received invitations to be part of this gathering today. and a look at any section of the crowd will turn up famous names and faces from law, politics, news media, and what have you. really, andrea, a cross-section of the power elite in this country as we look at arlen specter and orrin hatch and so on. >> democratic representatives that teddy jr. said, his father told him that republicans were real people, just like democrats. this driving rain, perhaps the perfect weather for such a sad day, tears of heaven coming down on senator kerri there, who has been limping with a cane because of a hip replacement. senator ted kennedy was last at arlington on june 6th of last year, the anniversary of bobby's death. he and members of the family. they went often, really, he went often, not only on anniversaries, sad anniversaries like november 22nd or june 6th. but

once bobby brought him to the senate office said he was just a tiny baby. body showed him off and introduced into the whole office. at that time, frank had just become a father again, too. his son had been born a few weeks earlier. so, bobby went over to frank's desk, held up the baby, and said the "franc, say hello to dodi. he has just read [unintelligible] . he continued, next week, he is going to read it all again, right side up. >> that reminds me of reading part of the speech that bobby kennedy gave in indianapolis after the death of martin luther king. did he really know aeschylus? you wrote about writing a speech to that place, but he spoke off the cuff. >> i was not writing a speech, but i was writing ideas for a speech but we never got to it because the police abandoned our motorcade. >> and just left you? >> yes. >> why? >> of the press bus got to the speech after bobby kennedy started the speech. that speech was right off the top of his head. he knew the great poets. he carried edith hamilton's book called "the greek way." he is one of the few --

with jack and kathleen, with bobby and david.he will be there ready to welcome the rest of us home someday. of this i have no doubt. >> our troops deserve better. i think the american people deserve better. they deserve competency. baseball it's three strikes and you're out. what is it for the secretary of defense? >> this is the cause of my new life, new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee every american north, south, east, west, young, old, will have decent quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege. >> an issue he fought for so hard in the last year of his life. this is the end of an era. >> so many people said he's into a family of >> senator edward kennedy has passed away at the age of 77 after a year and a half battle with brain cancer, he passed away late tuesday night at his >> abc news continuing coverage of his death continues this morning here with us. it was nearly five decades spent on capitol hil 47 years filled with good times and some not so good times. ion donvan has a look

earlier today we had a chance to visit with bobby kennedy jr. who took the family members out on the water. he did speak to the reporters saying that this was a very sad day, but a day they were also so grateful for all these people who have gathered here today. as one individual told me earlier, the cape will not be the same without teddy, though they acknowledge it was not unexpected it's difficult. just two times in the last two or so weeks this family has gathered to mourn. we did see as vehicles passed by the limousines we saw ted kennedy iii, one of the last senator's grandchildren roll down the window and wave with a smile on his face to everyone here. we had a chance to see maria shriver in one of the cars there, and vicky rolled down the window with tears had her eyes and had a chance to wave. it's a tough day for this community. they're not just mourning the loss of a senator for 47 years but a man that they say was just a neighbor. the guy they saw walking his dogs, the three portuguese water dogs around this area, taking the golf car

and in many ways, he helped to elevate bobby's record -- we talk about in this same way, bobby built up jack's legacy afterwards, when he was killed, teddy built up bobby's legacy. and, of course, barack obama is going to have to play a role now in talking about teddy. he may speak at the funeral, for all we know. and they each in their own way helped build the notion that the other brothers were. i think what you're going to think about in the next several days as we get toward the funeral, he was a brother. that's the word that's going to come out. you're going to see a lot of pictures of teddy with his brothers. >> and when his brothers fell, he carried on. >> and i think imagine only having pictures of your brothers when they were young, because they were only young. they were never old. there was never a gray hair in jack's head or in bobby's. and teddy was 77. and by the way, teddy avoided the violence that struck down his brothers. most of his life he was haunted by that, really haunted, changed by that, but managed to survive. >> chris matthews, so looking forward -- >> who k

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i think the same would have been true of bobby kennedy.s the difference between those brothers and ted kennedy. >> his career was not always destined for the greatness that we see now in the immediacy of the rearview mirror. it's extraordinary to think about this. "the new york times" editorial, "little brother wins" september 19, 1962. this initial victory for edward kennedy is demeaning to the dignity of the senate and the democratic process. it is important as we go through this weekend as we go through the memorial service and the funeral and the burial, is it important that that be carried along to indicate just how rough a path head to carve? >> absolutely. he in retrospect said here i was. he would say 1962 i was 30 years old. i had barely held a job. and suddenly i'm vaulted into the senate mainly because my brother is the president. and so "the times" was not that far off. but looking back, what did he use the opportunity for? he didn't just sort of stay in the senate and decide, i like the job, you know, i like the perks and so o

teddy went to bobby and said where you doing this?nning against him and he said i will say some nice things about you if you want too. [laughte bobby and jack did not want at 10 the two run and the advisers did not want them -- william to run it because he was vulnerable. >> to in the day meet with eddie mccormack to find his price to get out of the race? >> wed is typical with the intermediary. >> a 12 moven because to this part of it, it is teresting. cormick got smashed every nine in massachusetts was outraged how he had taken on e president's younger brother. mccormick was bashed and he realized life was unfair but interestingly within short order of the time he got elected allf a sudden the old bulls came to regard him for differently than they regarded his brother. >> that is intesti because it goes to family birth order. he was the runt the youngest of nine. when he came to the senate even more than today was the old man club and they expected him to be a brat to have the run of the place you came in and traded on the familyame

jack dies it goes on to bobby. bobby goes on to teddy.in a way, the caboose of the family, used to call him the little guy, he became the engine of is family, the patriarch of not only the senate but of his mily. you know when he was born, jack at 14 wanted to call him george washington because he was born on washington's birthday. think about how much of his life though, washington will be remembering. he is one of the great senators of all time. >> and they're missing quite simply, their neighbor here in hyannisport re tonight. my thanks to you both for coming by. doris kearns goodwin and mike barnacle as they say in this part of the country. when nbc "nightly news" continues here in just a moment. more on the death of senator ted kennedy and a look at some of this day any other news. the beauty of nature. sharing what i see. that's my vision. and i'm living it. every day, transitions lenses arehere to help care for my sight. announcer: transitions lenses adjust to changing ligh toeduce glare and help protect your eyes from uv damage so

bobby kennedy was 42 years old. ted kennedy was 77 years old and he got to live a full life. >> he mentioned president kennedy earlier, and bob and jack were cut short in life. ted kennedy never became president but if you look at the two dare both icons for their respective parties. ronald reagan became president 30 years ago, and the republicans today still revere his memory and his inspiration to so many. teddy kennedy has been in the senate for 47 years, for us in the democratic party has been the icon. i think as time moves forward he will be remembered in much the same way to democrats that ronald reagan is to republicans doing before i talk to others on the panel, you all want to join in, i may bring in janice page of the boston globe was watching this on tv from boston. she has been involved in several projects about senator kennedy. janice, you said to me earlier you were not surprised that the outpouring in boston among the home crowd. are you a little bit surprised that with teddy kennedy, not to say he i

like wise ted's hilochee to bobby was one of the most, probably the most defining of bobby kennedy and bobby kennedy was a much more complex figure. he had worked with joe mccarth he was considered ruthless. he was considered top. ted portrait msa simple man who saw wrong and try to righted and so warren tried to stop that and he is for train bobby annette hurley quay that bobby ars one a to b. portrait. the irony is of course said the size compared to those two unvorably so he was kind of an trapping himself than their myth. >> the is a much fferent city,uch different state now an it was in the 1960's. s it changed-- has it changed the nators politics? >> i think and you can sort of see the antecedent of these changes early on for the kennedys for always good it just being jack kennedy particularly and joe kennedy when end with him, it being one step ahead of theibase just to bring them along and i think what you saw in the '60s was ted starting to be a couple of days is the head of his base sophie laws support for immigration with the irish community here because they had been favore

my brother, bobby, went.am to die trying to bring an end to the evils of apartheid, i shall just die. courage was the word i saw time after time, politically, legislatively. ted kennedy had a passion for life but also a passion to be -- he was endeared, he was a fearless man in all respects. >> bob, thank you so much. dick, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us today. please accept our condolences. >> thank you. >> all right, take care. >>> dave has the weather board. what's going on? >> real quickly. if we look at portions of the midwest from illinois to kansas, missouri and back even to the south to oklahoma, you're going to see soggy weather today. slow-moving system, not severe. you could see flooding, 1 to 3 inches possible. widen out. the east coast looks traffic. keep in mind, weekend will be much different. a storm begins to move up the coast. if it's a named storm, it will be become danny. rockies out to the west coast, >>> scattered showers in florida and higher heat as you head a

now, bobby counted votes, and how many votes would bobby be able to count that would be changed because in this health care debate? >> i don't think any, to tell you the truth. i don't think that this is a -- this is a big fight overseeri ss substance. there are many people talking about what a great guy he was. is that going to change their mind on a serious issue like health care? i doubt it. >> any democrats out there, the evans that we keep talking about, and the lincolns, and the people in the conservative states? >> no. the problem with health care right now, 30 years ago, there was a clear government. it could make promises about vision airy programs, and you might believe it and go for it. now we are more skeptical than we were. this is not medicare time in 1964. this is not roosevelt and social security. they had clear fields. it's a mercky field. those are the sort of things that are stopping, i believe, health care. serious reservations. >> we have to do news. my question is, i wonder if there is somebody in the white house, and i don't mean it in a negative sense, but is the

but his brothers would be assassinated -- first it jfk, leader bobby. and were caught the eye of america when he spoke at bobby's a funeral. >> he was 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. >> the political hopes of the kennedy clan fell to edward. but then came chappaquidick. 1969 -- edward, married now, at a late-night party with campaign workers. he drove his car off a bridge. he got out and swam away, leaving his passenger, struggling in a submerged car. she drowned. and where did not report the incident for nine hours. he had not been having an affair, he claimed. >> i regard as indefensible the fact that i did not report the accident beautifully to the police immediately. >> but following allegations of cover-up, rumors that the family had been paid hush money. his wife had a miscarriage. they later divorced. chappaquidick damaged and work, but it did not break it. many -- chappaquidick damaged at work, but it did not break him. many argue it made him stronger. i

tavis:ou turned down bobby kennedy? >> yes, i did, 1968.is: for all the stories we have heard over th years ad the last hour since he passed away, we heard aout what they did great negotiator he was. how did it ted kennedy take that ou were telling him that you are going to pass? >> gotver it. and we remained eat friends. you remember in 1980, when i was hot in fortwayne, one of the first visors to the intensive care unit to see me when life was 1 foot in the grave an another on a bana peel teddy kennedy came to fortayne to see abt his friendvernon jordan in july of 1980, when i was still in the new york hospital recovering fro that, d nnedy was campaigning in th bronx. i heard it on e radio and saw it on tevision. before the afterno was over, unexpectedl hewas in room 1719 at new york hospital to visit and give comfort to his friend, vernon joan. he was incredibly compassion at -- compsionate when it came to his friends. he was one who was not only sympathetic, but he wou stand by you and prompt you what -- and promptou up when you were le

he's portraying bobby in that heroic way that bobby always wanted to be portrayed. ted was always compared unfavoring. >> this is a much different city. it's a much different city and state now than it was in the 1960s. has a change in constituents -- has a change in constituency changed the senator's politics. >> well, i think -- i mean, you can sort of see the antecedent of these chang early on where the kennedys were always good at just being -- jack kennedy particularly and joe kennedy with him being one step ahead of their base, just to bring them along and a think what you saw in the '60s was ted starting to be a couple of paces ahead of his base and so he lost support for immigration with the irish community here because they had been favored under the old immigration plan. he lost support with some of the working class white voters based on his support for busing and affirmative action and other things. there does seem to be, you know -- i think you can see earlier signs of those changes >> thank you. go ahead. >> my question is directed at sam or susan. sus

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bobby isn't running. >> bobby, not the last of the kennedys, but senator ted kennedy, one of the lastfice. and now jane oates, talk a bit about senator kennedy and how he fought against public opinion. we see caroline and others in the family. we know the family well. how he fought for things he believed in even though it was not popular in massachusetts and with his political base. >> andrea, he was so ahead of his time on every issue. whether it was fighting in the beginning for head start or fighting for the minimum wage, which he did his entire career, or most currently fighting for health care. this current health care debate started years ago when nancy cassle bomb was in the senate and resulted in things like s-chip. the problem that helps children to make sure they have access to health care. he was such an amazing legislator. instead of walking away when he couldn't get the ideal bill passed, he would come back again and again and again to make incremental steps towards where we knew he needed to go. every one over the last couple days as you're talking about reaching across

. >> i'm bobby kennedy, and excuse my voice.as eunice's godchild, i think her favorite godson. >> reporter: the world may have known her as a great political and social advocate, founder of the special olympics, but on this day, her nephew bobby is remembering more personal eccentriciti eccentricities. her lack of modesty. >> when we were kids, and she would change on the island, there was no place to go behind a tree or anything. she would just take off her clothes. and everybody would go, eunice. she would say, if you don't like it, don't look. >> i was the one who was forced to hold the towel in front of mother. >> every single story bobby kennedy just told is not true. >> reporter: it is a glimpse into another side of the kennedy clan, cousins ribbing and teasing. >> i get the feeling that we could be here all night long telling eunice stories, don't you? >> reporter: ted kennedy jr., whose father, senator ted kennedy, could not make it to his sister's wake. instead staying at the family's compound as he battles brain cancer

in fact, senator kennedy, when he was talking about bobby kenn dy at his eulogy in 1968 cited his memorable speech to young people in south africa, at a time when apartheid was at its peak, nelson mandela was in jail. he cited alexander the great, joan of arc, reminding them the time thomas jefferson wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 32. he said the future does not belong to those who are content with today. those were the words of robert kennedy, cited by edward m.

to his final rests place alongside brothers bobby and john. >> announcer: from abc news headquarters this is "world news." >>> good evening, i'm jim sciutto. so many times across the years, it was ted kennedy leading his family in a ritual of grief and farewell but today, they came to say good-bye to him, to celebrate his life as an era in american politics cable to an end. the senator is scheduled to be buried in a short time at arlington national cemetery close to the bodies of his brothers john and bobby. but it began in boston at a church filled with friends, three generations of friends and politicians, including politicians past and present. they celebrated kennedy as a tireless legislator. and as a father who never forgot a birthday who once gave his disabled son a simple and powerful gift of riding a sled. we begin in boston with abc's john berman. >> reporter: under a driving rain, under a cloud of sadness, the flag-draped casket carrying senator ted kennedy arrived at the basilica of our lady of perpetual help. at the kennedy family, the family he helped for years, knees, n

source of knowledge of the family wishes tell us this is where senator ted kennedy will be, close to bobby's website. >> reporter: a assassinated