i think it was two thing ted keedy's suprt for obama.alsoaid the most important vote that he cast as a senator was his vote against iraq. he agreed withbama on that and disagreewith eri clinton bil clinton had, in fact,een quite disparaging and dismiive in conversations with ted kennedy of barack obama. and d kennedy was offended by it. >> there was also a political, ideological component clion's reesented centralism in a way and kenny was more on the left i thk that was pa of the reas. irais one example of that. also, clint is the e who abolished welfare, which kennedy opposed. i'm not sure that t endorment of obama release wait a lot of -- reay swayed a t of votes. but he used the words open with thtorch had bn passed" which john kennedy had usedhen he was lking about the eisenhower generation passg theorch to his. and i think this was a change. and i think oma was regarded as a keedy-esque figure. >> let's talk abo health care. you did me reporr ought -- reporting on howhe debate is shing up despite theabsence of ted kennedy. tell us

what about the legacy othe keedys? how much othis is just about the lure of the kenned name, and how much of thi is about edwd m. kenne as an invidual? >> i thi, again, it's both, gwen. is not simply matter that was a more classically lib senator than his brothersere. his others lived in an enrely differentolitical cultu than ted knnedy did. that is, ey didn' have to face many of the issues that h had to take a stand on, issues like aborti rights, issues like the men's movement, which esident kennedy in fact did have a commissionn women's stat, but the women's movemen came late in this story. thre are many- gay liberation-- many of e issues that theemocratic party has struggled with, d kennedy had to ake out positions, liberalism facin these isss. his brhers neverdealt with any of that. nor didhey deal with a political cture that showed absolutely irreverence r politicafigures and tha put theirrivaterk les under extraordinary scrutiny. so'm not sure thate was more classical liberal. he chaed over time. he evolve his id

the president was in office not that long, and robert keedy was attorney general not vy ng and not veryas senator, but teddy served almost 47 yars inhe united states senate, and could always count on him. he was there when we needed hi tavis: i wonder, verno jordan, now that we live in the most multi-ethnic ericans ever, now that we have an african-arican president, wonder wheer there will beanother senator like m in terms of fighting for the lea among us, the were disenfranchised. will we see another senator lik him? will history demand that wehave other senators like him, given that some believe now we doot need tedennedy and we ve in a post racial america? >> i think we havto he that we will not jt get one ted kendy but that we will get0, 15, 20 ted kennedys to serven the houser the senate. is notioabout post racial, i am not sure that it is post racial. i am very pleased, obously, about the election o bara obama as present of the united states, but as -- t that does no mn the issue of race is nished,hat we he crossed the fish line. we need what teddy kennedy has gen us. we nd what h

one thing people do not member, it was the behind-the- scenes keedy who was really interested in thele. forxample, during the vietnam r when they were talking abo bringing hom -- getti out of vietm at the end. there was a closed-door briefing and theeneral was taing about how ty were going do thispeaking in rms of uts that wod be moved between t pipeline to t them outf there. kennedy saidwait a minut general, we are not talki about units or pipelines. we're talking about people that was the kennedy gnature. he really saw the people behind th numbers. >> in 1968 he was somewhat ambivale of the war. after 1968 h was very much against it. his political slls were the nate willot be the same without him, wilit? >> yeah, and one of the great rength that he had was highlighted in most of th memorial's paid to him. he ha sick -- a great self- deprecating humor in juary of 1971, robert byrd upset him in t democratic caucu. he became 31-24 for the senate -- r the democratic whip. kennedy handled it well. it was damaging tany national ambitions. he said, but what i want t thank the 29 senats wh

naator: in the end, keedy sided with his bther. that evening, for the first time in hiory, a president wod declare civil rights f black americans a ral issue. john lewis: that nht in june wh he spoke, he spoke, think, tohe heart and to the sl of america. i would never rget that speech. we are confronted prarily with a moral iue. it is as o as the scriptures and is as clear as the american constitution the heart of the question is whether all americans are to be afrded equal rights and eql opportunities. rrator: within weekskennedy sent the longwaited bill to congress. it washe most sweeping civil rits legislation since reconstrucon. if you look ba, um... at who jn kennedy was when he ca to the united statesenate... and u see who he was on rial issues when he died, you ha to say that's at you want. you know that most white americans are racist you can't help but be racist inhis culture less you have superb parents what you hope is that whit americans can be eduted and that they can be purged, to some real degree, their racism, and t

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it's widely own that the keedy family went onto great wealth. ted kennedy, like his brothe jf they've always been associated with the workg man, the comm man. d i'm wondering how do the irish sort of see th they're wealthy ople but they seem to be people like us? >> they rember that no matter what university chr you get to new yo city matter what throne you were sent to, no matter at seatn government you get, you ill have to sit on your own arse. and they're aware of mortality because all of the trageds that have occurred in their families due to o thing or anoth or due to violence. and yet in a certainay, they aspire-- rose kennedy once said to one of jacs friends, when are the resctable people of boston going to accept ? because they ner accepted the ish. because part of the ish -- rt of that class of person that came here, poverty gives you -- i inculcates youith a sense of shame, which takes carof the past. anfear, which takes care of the future. so shame is something u've done, tt's been done to you. and fear is,on't even bother coming up h

teddy keedy has been pushing for universal health care since almost d one in the senate in 1962.had th full wind his back pushi foroting rights, civil ights. he is an unamguous liral icon, an americ icon an international icon, who even went to south africa and snt time with bish tu in the rease he did days ofpartheid and me b deith aptheid rime there. evything teddy kennedy did their that the stamp of caring out people and he is one of our great political figures. tais: you know that we have these at inflow conversations about liberalism, the "l" word, and forhe balance ofis career he never shi away from the word. what do you make >> that is rht, and he was important r the dmocratic party. bill inton said he was a new democrat, people played wh the wordrogressive. he was a proud liberal. hehought it was part of the adition of theodore roosevelt 's new natialism and f's new deal and lyndo johnson and great socie. he was a proud liberal. now liberal isack inogue. barack obama has rlly learned a lot from ted kennedy. esident obama it is sort of my ag. john f.kennedy, we were childre

reporter: republicans like former president bush and minority leader john boehner say they remember keedy as an elder statesman who was never disagreeable, even though they rarely agreed on issues. >> the outpouring of love, gratitude and fond memories to which we've all borne witness is a testament to the way the singular figure in american history touched so many lives. >> reporter: politicians and everyday americans alike are leaving messages in a condolence book in senator kennedy's office on the hill and hundreds have posted messages in an on-line condolence book. >> thank you. >>> senator kennedy's final farewell begins tomorrow. he'll lie in repose at the john f. kennedy presidential library in boston thursday and friday. friday night the family will hold a private memorial service there. saturday a funeral mass will take place at boston's our lady of perpetual health basilica. president obama is expected to present a eulogy there. on saturday he will be buried at arlington national cemetery. mourners are gathered at the arlington national cemetery. it already serves as the burial

i mean, the ather, je keedy, was a vey conservative democrat who broke th f.d.r. in spectacular faion. jo kennedy, much loved, ut was t a very lberal snator. heas very cautious. and really had to be pushed into civil rights action, for example. robert kennedy mo so. and ihink in retrospet, my guess is that te kenedy took his inspiration mre fro robert kennedy an from his older brohers. >> chris dodd said at the wake fo ted kennedy th one of the reasons he was so sucessful is that people iked hm. w that the key to h ability to workith members of other parties? cause certainly other senators tried to dothat. other senatorsave served s long orlonger and otr nators are knowledgeable. was the kennedy name or what was it hat made him so ae to work with her senators and carry them along? >> onltwo other senators in history serv longer thanted kennedy. strom thmond and robert byrd. part of it was ongevity. he came from an era in the senate where people did t alon where people wee iends. they coud be adversaes on legislation but they ultately cod put those kinds of tings a

but it's a throw backo another time, and i don't know t keedy family psonally, but i think with t womeneeing how much -- theragedy that they've gonehrough, but all the men in theiramily, perhapshey chose not to be the ones to put themselvesut there and go through all the publi-- everything from embarrassment to outrage to politic life and realy -- they need to have some sense of norlcy, so maybe that's a throwback to the 1950s. ion't know. personally would have liked t have seen more of the women stand upnd get morenvolved in things otr than charitable work, but mbe that was jus their wayf making pea with the whole world. >> well, maria shriv, i think developed a ceer in journism where she was not just one- she tk stands a she's taking stands as a rst lady. ihink the women had leadership roles in diffent way, and don't denigratehat, i don't think that's lesser than. it'sot president of the united states, but i tnk kathleen kennedy towendeing lieutenant governor is not chopped ler. she ran for highe office, didn't win,ut -- > i don't think these things are mutually elusive. yo can have a

. >> i have intviewed her about bobby keedy, and if you did this to sugge that there was even the tiniest in perfection with bobby kennedy, you are immediately t straight on that and told to get with the program. e was a formidable lady. >> she is an inspition for many people o care abou those o are impaired. she illustrates how much can be done even if you are not elected -- inn elective office, holding a power base somewhere the specl olympicnow is internationally and influen, and she diall that witho holding office. we have seen a generation of kennedys behind her also starting to do this in the prive sector. its a greatole mod for what pple can accomplish. >> she h terrific children. they are all in the public sector in one waor the other, too. >>he was a nobleman who took up a noble cause and made it work. tells us that the kennedys really were a royal family. that geration was mt extraordinary. a preside, a market sator -- martyred senator, a great senator anineddy. i not think the younger generation can match thelders, and that isot to put down, but it was an amazing generatn that

you might see parts of theill that senor keedy posy frien chris dodshepherded through the committee -- senator kennedy'friend chris dodd shepherded through the committee. limits the republicans but then, possibly,hey will wait unl later on to do some of the diffilt moneychanger trks and medicare trimming tricks in the finance committee, which is where this ll is at least a ninal team of republicans and mocrats working together. it is time for our high points and low points mine is high point. just this past couple o days since kennedy'passing, we ha seen these medical retrospectes of old photogphs from the earlier era of democratic politics, and it has beeneally cynicis neutralizing to see these beautil images of the past, especially these bla and white ones. budweisers now brandi deal wi college logos. as it we needed another reason colle students to be drinking at football games. that is a low poin -- >> tha is low point? do you he a college-age child >> by chance > i do, a we're ping it does not make it to the point. >> i stted college when was 16and it did not have to be branded.

members of the kennedy family here to greet those who have come to pay respects to ted keedy. ster, as we talk about the politics, certainly great focus tonight on simply remembering the man. the politics will come down the line. >> you noted members of the kennedy family here. there will be a member of the family for the entire viewing here over the next couple days. all right, kelly, thank you very much. after lying in repose tonight and tomorrow. a funeral mass for senor kennedy is scheduled for turday morning here in bton. brian willia anchors our coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on nbc. >>> we have a stunning story to report out of california tonight. a story that began8 years ago with the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl. what happened to her? that mystery may now be solved. we have late details from nbc's george lewis in plasserville, california. george, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. jaycee dugard was 11 when taken. she is 29 years old today and may have had two chdren by her abductor. police have been briefing the press about this 18-year-old

. >> woodruff: senator ted keedy also receivethe medal, but the senator, who is battling bra cancer, didn't tend. his oldestaughter, kara, ccepted it on his behalf. >> there's a story d kennedy sotimes tells. it's about a boy o sees an old m tossing starfish stranded b a receding tie back into the sea. "there are so ny," asks the y. "what dference can your efforts ssibly make?" the old man studies the srfish in hs hand and tosses it to safety, sayg, "it makes a difference to that one."h for nearly hala century, ted kennedy has been waing that bch. >> woodruff: e list also incded two posthumous awards to the quarterback-tned- polician, representative jack kemp of new york. and harvey milkthe first openlgay man to be elected to public office in calirnia. >> lehrer:gain, the major velopments developments of the daythe federal reser said that enomic activity is leveling ou and that financial markets well see you onlinand again here tomorrow evening. m jim lehrer. thank you, and od night. majorunding for the newshour with jim lehrer is prided by: and with the ooing support of hese institu

>>let's begin with o of our more morable conversations with senor keedy. this happened back in mar of 1997 when the senator took us on a tou of his brother's presidential library in boston. >> president kennedy came from an urban area. my grandfather wasayor of the city of boston and to have the library in an urban area next to a university, and then close to the sea which he loved. he loved story. he loved this city. >> presideial libraries by their nature are supposed t commemorate ideals of the man. what ideals of yr brother, of president kennedy, are captured in this place? >> well, really, a belie that individuals can make a difference and everyone should try. i think tha really captured the essence of his presidency. i mean it was the challenge of his inaugural speech. >> ask not what your country can do for you. k what you can do for your couny. >> that line in thatpeech may be one of the most famous lines a politician has ever uttered. iteally wasn't a speec writer's line. it was what came from the art. >> well, it was really his life. that really

the smithsonian's national portrait gallery is giving washingtonian as place to go to remember ted keedy. a portrait of the senator has been installed and in a remembrance gallery of the museum. the silk-screen print was created back in 1908 by artist andyarhol as way to raise money for kennedy's presidential bid. warhol used the colors of the american flag and diamond dust features in the principle. the portrait will hang in a gallery that's designated for the remembrance of people who have recently died. >>> the health care debate turned emotional at another town hall today. last night the location was phoenix, arizona, and senator john mccain was in the center of it all. he was opening the meet when a woman in the audience began shouting over him. >> we need -- ma'am, you are going to have to -- you are going to have to stop or you are going to have to leave. >> other audience members cheered when security officers approached the woman. she was evicted from the town hall. later senator mccain told the crowd that he would fight for health care reform but said, again, that he does not f

keedy was for years one of a cadre of senators and congrsional staff who worked wih children as part of the national "everyby wins" reading and menting program. thi grader larenai swann read with kennedy at bryt elentary school. >> i remember the fit time he came d read with me. >> was he funny? >> we played rock per scissors, whoever won wouldead theage... ( laughs ) ... but senator nnedy won, so and we ok turns reading >reporter: it was not until she returnehome that first day that she learn who her new, special tor was. >> the firstay i went home my mom and my grandmother told . >> and what diyou think? i thought, wow. >> reporter: larenai's moer, yumica thompson. >> when i found out i was ke, okay, that's ptty interesting. i told her at you know that that's pretty bigand just go inthere, read your best and do your bt which she did. she actuly fell in love with him. he had a gat personality so i guess it put her at ease read re. >> reporter: jocelyn colel is the program ordinator. >> he was a really forcefu intimidating figure you didn't know him personally,ut he would come in and

. >> eunice keedy shriver w the fifth of nin kennedy omilen, and growing up in that inent family was ofte overadowed by her brothers -- joe,john, bobby and ted, but it was herolder sist, rosemary, who inspired her life'swork. rosemary was born, as described in the days, mildly retard, and at a 23 under alobotomy which made herorse off. she was initutionalized for the rest of her life. jim river, one of eunice's five children spoke withur ray suarein 06. >> she tels wonderful stories about in her teenageears dealing with her sister in a ve competitive family where one was expected to com back with a first-place finh in a sailbt race,and going out wi rosemary and realizing righthere and then tat she could sail, sheould pull on the jib, she could crew -- her sister could do thingsnd particularly dothings in srts. >> reporte: rosemary was largely kept out of the publ eybut in 1962, eunice shriver wroe a candid article about mental retardation in an iue of "the saturday evening post." thearticle helped to easehe attachesocial igma. after her brother john f. kendy, was elected president, s

reduction strategy in which the obama campan okn as its own, so religion and politics, why is ted keedy right in the front there? >> richard viguerie, who was the dict males are for the bride andas been for years. i called them up and said, talk about kennedy haters, ndps said it stemmed from his personal behavior which these evangelicals found odious and held that against him forever and would not let that go. you simply can't excuse again chappaquiddick and that's, that's simply rises above and keeps him in a low estimation thin the church, a lot of the church. we can never buy that, and he has lived with that for the rest of his life. >> and it has been an interesting change in his relationship with the church. here's someonef i'm not mistaken that was baptized, was he baptized by the pope rick first communion? baptized by cardinal cushing. he was at the vatican i believe for his first communion. thank you and thank you. for his communion. the kennedys were very close to the church at one point and in fact that proximity extended into politics to the point in 1969 i believe it was th

keedy, a biography.t hampt hampton, new york, sally quinn, a reporter for "the washington post" and am lly, first of all, sally, first of all, just talk about what a remarkable womant this was. >> she was incredibly energetic. i mean, she had -- i mean, my husband remembers her from the years when the kennedys were in the white house as having more energy than anyone he ever knew. she had a real -- i think it was part of her catholic faith. she was very religious, and she had a real sense of doing service. she passed on to her five children. he started the special olympics, and she changed the way we see people who are disablbe ir teny.s i remember a friend fel tling m years ago that she had a t down syndrome child and, of course, t t pu in an institution, and everybody sortf t ddno. that's what you did then. the extraordinary suffering ofd so many of these children being institutionalis dongha tive gp children was something that was just accepted in those da. and she turned that around and made everyone

and for some perspective on what has gone with eunice keedy, let's bring in bob schrum. thank you for joining us this morning. we're sorry for your loss. >> i'm sorry to be here. i'm sorry for the world's loss. >> and let's get some perspective on just how important it was in 1968, for eunice kennedy shriver to decide that this group of largely forgotten people needed to be embraced. needed to be brought into society. how big was the impact? >> i think the impact was enormous. you know, she started even before that. in 1962, she persuaded her family to tell the story publicly of her sister, rosemary. she used to laugh about how she sat outside president kennedy's office, lobbying to establish nationalnstitute of child health and human development. and what she did was take a personal tragedy and transform it into a movement that changed the world for tens o millions of people with intellectual disabilities. she loved to go to those events. and look at those athletes and say to them, as probably no one ever said to them before in their lives, you are the stars. >> i remem

. >> madame secretary, there are two stands that have come through, kennedy the lion, keedy the deal maker. which is more useful as they go forward in the health reform debate? >> i think having been a recoveri legislator myself. you need both. you need principals and to know what the fundamental things that are you believe in. and you need to get things done. senator kennedy had both. he had a belief system and constituency who had represented strongly and aocated onheir behalf knowing that a lotf the people he spoke for had no other voice or champion. and at the end of the day he knew making progress on issues were critically important. i think we need both right now in the senate. >> in following the strain of the senator kennedy comment, looking forward to health care reform which you want to see passed, what will h legacy mean to passage in negotiations might now? we kno that senator dodd, he was fairly intimately involved. could you cment your thoughts >> i don'think there's any question he will be missed. just his physical presence has been missed over the last month. because