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

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ted keedy's final restin place will be at arlingto national cemetery next to hi brother's jack and bobbyn >> how will he be remembered? >> ted kennedy from those ofs to cover demanded new him slightly will remeer him as the remaable feat -- ho covere him and knew ms. saile rememred --ho covered him and knew him slightly ll be membered in h as a likable peon. altm become a people like ted kennedy because who he was and he genuily liked them. it was incredie asset and strength as a political leader curator >> charles? >> he was the most important sectors since lyndon johns. sury, the most important in u.s. history thatever became majority lear. also, you are the leader of american liberalism- you have the leader of american liberalism. he tk it from the century of his brother, john kennedy, to the left liberalism of obama. he stand that era and helped to prepare that cnge. >> all ofhis is true and more. he could be rembered as a truly shespearean figure, tragic,flawed, whochieved reteion through greg both in hisrofessional and personal lives. -- who achieved greatness both in his professio

nobility ofublic service, what is the abing lesson thate ought to take from the life and legacy of ted keedy he showed us the wa he was an exame, 4 glorious years in the united stes sene, and he served well,e served long we are the beneficiaries of tha service. tavi a great lder inis own right, vernon jordan, with his thoughts about edward kenndy o massachusetts. mr. jordan, thank you for the opportunity. >> any time, my friend. tavis: also, i spoke with douglabrinkley. your tughts on the life and legacy of ted knedy? >> this past year, he did an oral history prect in virgia which will be healthy -- which will be a help desk doars. ere will be a lot of new informationhere. this is a legislativeiant. people talk aot about john kennedy and bobby kenned ted kennedy fought for the -- fought for the disenfranchised anthe poor and elderly. he has been pushing for universal health care since almost day one and the sene in 1962. he had the wind at his back pushingor voting rights,ivil rights. is unambiguous, a libal icon, american icon, international icon wh even went to south africa and snt tim wit

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

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> 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

portion 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

a lot of people think ted keedy would have had much better odds. >> kelly, people talk about his ability toeach across party lis. but the fact of the mter is he waa real partisan. he was an absolute liberal, yet people talk aut him not hating, not spewing nom, then you go back to some of the speeches and comments he made on the war in iraq and on the bork nomination, they were very pointed and harsh. weren't they? >> very hardene vis. but what you learn from other senators is it was the persol touch that ted kennedy was able to connect with his colleagues both republicans and democrats on many imptant days and on many ordinary days. they say he was always the first to be on the telephone if a fellow member lost someone in their family, suffered a tragedy, because he derstood that. he would even do simple things like carry a plate of cookies or zbla zbl cigars to try to nudge them along. all gestures, personal contact. making those connections at all different times. he had a great sense of timing when he would know how to push a colleague and when to come back and try tmpromise. so in th

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 here.

and that was kept alive after his brother's assassination, with the candidacy of robert keedy in 19, and that ted kenny himself en carried through in the ensuing yrs. there's a kind of continuity to the story, and is one that is intertwined wit that of the tion itself over almost a 50-year period, whether liberalism was in or out o shion,he idea was to use the wer of the federal governmen assist those most in need, to ensure th all amerans had a decent stdard of living, decent health care lrngs acstes to education, to a good j, and to a clea envinment will be. ttheir most fuamental rights. thinabout the fact when t kennedy gan his senatorial caree worked first on legislation toet rid of the poll tax, and lived to see barackbama elected as the first african american esident, sometng that never could have happened had they not gotten rid of the poll tax and segregation itsf. the two are total intertwid inmy view. >> ifill: how about t health care piecef this, ronpollack. ou worked closely wi him on gettg universal health care coverage and it is somethi he going to his grave without having quite ach

. >> 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, sh used the opportuny to push forhe rights of peop wth telle