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If I am elected president
of the United States,
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I'm going to work for
those who are deprived,
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those who are poor,
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whether they be white or black.
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Robert Kennedy is hoping
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to fulfill the family dream
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of a second son in the white house,
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but tragedy strikes once more.
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All eyes are on the
only surviving son, Ted,
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as he inherits the burden of expectation.
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You will not reconsider
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your decision about
seeking the presidency?
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Absolutely not.
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Overcoming scandal and defeat,
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Ted fights back...
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The hope still lives,
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and the dream shall never die.
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...to lead the new generation
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and continue the legacy
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of this great American dynasty.
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This family's name is Kennedy.
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We want Kennedy! We want Kennedy!
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I thank all of you
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who made this possible this evening,
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all of the effort that you made.
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We want Kennedy!
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Bobby Kennedy wins
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the crucial California primary
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in his battle to secure
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the Democratic presidential nomination.
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We're all congratulating
ourselves and each other
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on how terrific this is.
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Everybody's looking forward to
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having a drink, and dancing,
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and thinking about all the great
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things that are in store.
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We are a great country,
an unselfish country,
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and a compassionate country,
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and I intend to make
that my basis for running
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and over the period of.
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Four and a half years
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after his brother Jack was assassinated,
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Bobby has set his sight
on the white house.
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It is a jubilant moment.
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He might actually go all the way,
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straight to the presidency,
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following his brother Jack.
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The people who'd loved Jack Kennedy
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loved Bobby Kennedy.
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He had developed a softer side
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after the death of his brother.
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He's no longer
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the ruthless, cynical,
mob-busting hardhead.
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Here's someone who is
as powerful as anyone,
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but who identifies with common people
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in a way that you hadn't seen
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anybody at the top of American society do.
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We want Kennedy!
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Bobby's wife and greatest champion, Ethel,
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shares in his triumph.
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I'm not doing this in
the order of importance,
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but I also want to thank my wife, Ethel.
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Ethel lives for this moment,
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because she's always believed
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that Bobby had a lot to offer.
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She's wanted it to be Bobby's turn,
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and now it is Bobby's turn.
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He felt very confident
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as he stood on the stage
in the ambassador hotel.
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You can see it in his face.
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He knew had a real shot.
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My thanks to all of you.
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And now it's on to
Chicago, and let's win there.
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Thank you very much.
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Bobby was supposed to turn right
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and go into a press room.
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But some teeny boppers get in the way.
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Kennedy's cut off from his own bodyguard.
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The hotel manager turns him around
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and aims him to exit through the kitchen.
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His bodyguard gets there too late.
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A doctor! A doctor!
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It's complete chaos.
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Everybody's screaming and crying.
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We ran down the end of the hall.
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It looked really bad.
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God! Damn! Why?!
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We need a doctor here!
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And I remember looking at him,
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and his shirt was open.
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That...
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That's shock.
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That's stunning.
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Ethel Kennedy is leaning over him,
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inches from his face.
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She can see that he's badly wounded.
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Ted is with Bobby's campaign team
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in San Francisco
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when he hears the news.
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He rushes to be with his brother.
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He's in surgery.
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Mrs. Kennedy is with him.
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Senator Ted Kennedy
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Doctors now say surgery
will last another hour.
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I sat with my father, you know,
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on and off throughout the night,
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holding his hand on
the other side of the bed.
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My father's head was
bandaged, and he had--
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his eyes were black
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like, you know, somebody
had punched him in the face.
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Ted tells Ethel,
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"the doctors have said that
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we need to take him off life support.
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This is no life for Bobby."
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For Ethel, Bobby is everything.
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It's always been that way.
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Bobby and Ethel, together, forever.
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She is, at that moment,
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pregnant with their eleventh child,
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and now she's losing Bobby,
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the same way that Jackie lost Jack.
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Senator Robert Francis Kennedy
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died at 1:44 A.M.
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Today,
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June 6,
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1968.
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In the morning, my brother Joe came in
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and said, you know, "he's gone."
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So then, that afternoon,
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we took him back to New York.
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The piercing whine of the engines
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subside as the airplane stops.
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The casket now about a halfway out
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of the door of the airplane.
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The great tragedy of this moment
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is that we actually never get to see
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what Bobby Kennedy would
have been able to accomplish.
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He would have been one
of the most experienced men
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to occupy the American presidency
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since its founding.
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Jaqueline Kennedy.
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Behind her, Mrs. Edward Kennedy.
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This sense of hope for the country
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was ending in Bobby Kennedy,
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who tapped it in a way
that not even his brother did.
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You know, it's like
the pin in the balloon:
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It's just-- it's gone.
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The doors of St. Patrick's
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have been open only 10 minutes,
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and thousands of people
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have begun streaming through
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to pay their respects
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to the body of senator Robert Kennedy.
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For two days,
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mourners lined 25 blocks
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outside St. Patrick's cathedral
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to pass by Kennedy's coffin.
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For the service itself,
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2,000 mourners
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crammed the cathedral.
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They included the rich, and
the powerful, and the famous,
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but also the poor and the dispossessed,
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farm workers, people who felt
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close to rfk.
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Bobby's father, Joe,
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is too ill to attend the funeral.
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His only surviving son, Ted,
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delivers the eulogy.
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He had to be tested immediately.
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The world expected it.
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My brother need not be idealized
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or enlarged in death beyond
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what he was in life
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to be remembered simply
as a good and decent man
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who saw wrong and tried to right it,
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saw suffering and tried to heal it,
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saw war and tried to stop it.
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As he said many times,
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"some men see things as they are
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and say, 'why?'
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I dream things that never were
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and say, 'why not?'"
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Robert Kennedy's body
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is taken by train
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on an eight-hour journey from New York
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to Arlington national cemetery -
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the final resting place
of his brother, Jack.
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My father organized
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the funeral train,
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and that was an incredible experience:
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227 miles
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of people on both sides of the tracks
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with signs, and... um...
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It was just a very moving experience.
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I was on that train and
just watching these--
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you know, this extraordinary sight.
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You had people
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carrying these signs that
said, "goodbye, Bobby."
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You had nuns and priests and rabbis,
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and you had hippies and soldiers.
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There's nobody that I can think of
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that could've drawn those numbers
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and that kind of diverse a population
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to say goodbye.
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Ted is able to keep it together
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at the funeral,
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but the funeral train,
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with all of the thousands of people
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who met that train along its way,
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it was more than Ted could bear.
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And it marked
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a major change in Ted's life.
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He had always been the younger brother,
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one way or another.
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All three of the other brothers
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die through acts of violence,
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and the baby brother winds up being
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the family patron.
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And everybody is looking
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at Ted, right now, to take over.
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He's only 36 years old.
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I hope the countless thousands
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who have sent their expressions
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of sympathy and condolence
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to Ethel Kennedy, and
my mother and father,
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and to the members of the Kennedy family,
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could realize the strength and the hope
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that they have given to
the members of the family
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during these last several days.
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Now my mother would
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I want to extend our thanks
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to all of you.
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Rose was not big on emotional displays.
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There's a certain courage
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that she was able to call upon
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because of her religious convictions,
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and she also understood
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what was important for the country.
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We shall carry on the principles
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for which Bobby stood.
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His devotion and
dedication are familiar to US.
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It only served to
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put more pressure, I think, on Ted,
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because all of these new expectations
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were projected onto him.
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Ted had a lot on his shoulders
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just being in the shadow
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of the great jfk
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and rfk.
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He was the baby brother.
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He was the child of his parents' old age,
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the adored little brother
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He was supposed to be cute and amusing,
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a little rascal,
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and adored.
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In 1968, Ted and Joan Kennedy
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celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary.
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They have three children -
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Kara, Edward junior, and Patrick.
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Ted Kennedy and his first wife, Joan,
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had a very difficult relationship.
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Ted is known to be reckless,
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and even more so after Bobby's death.
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He was drinking too much.
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He was seeing too many women.
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In many ways, he was self-sabotaging.
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A year after Bobby's death,
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Ted attends a reunion
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of his brother's old campaign team
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on chappaquiddick island in Massachusetts.
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Teddy felt that it was
important for him to go,
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to represent Bobby,
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so he went over with his chauffeur.
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There's a party,
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and there are a lot of women there.
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And he takes the keys from his chauffeur
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and gets into the car with a young woman,
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whose name is Mary Jo kopechne.
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Mary Jo kopechne
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had worked for Bobby
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in his 1968 campaign.
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And Teddy was going
to, according to his story,
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take her to the ferry that would take her
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back to her hotel.
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But he took a radically wrong turn.
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And a very improbable wrong turn,
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because the road was
paved straight to the ferry.
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When you make a sharp right turn
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on a gravel road,
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up the road that Teddy went on,
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there's no way you'd do that by mistake.
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On July 18th, 1969,
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senator Ted Kennedy
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and his brother's former campaign aide,
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Mary Jo kopechne,
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leave a party together
on chappaquiddick island.
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And it was absolute, pitch-black darkness,
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heading out to a beach
which happened to have
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a very rickety wooden bridge
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that went over a very fast-moving channel.
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And his car went off the bridge.
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He said, by his testimony,
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that he had no memory of how he escaped,
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that he dove as many
times as he could manage
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to try to get Mary Jo out.
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After diving in a couple of times,
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he abandons the scene.
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He said he went back, ultimately,
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to his hotel room in edgartown
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and fell asleep.
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He waited nine hours to report it.
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That was, you know,
unfathomable to most people.
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A diver recovers Mary Jo kopechne's body
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the next morning.
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She was 28 years old.
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The death at chappaquiddick
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was a tragedy and terrible enough,
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but the way Teddy handled it
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made it infinitely worse.
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All the first moves
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were about protecting Teddy.
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It was all about Teddy's reputation,
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Teddy's career, the Kennedy legacy -
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nothing about the fact
that Mary Jo kopechne
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died what must have
been a very horrible death.
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Mary Jo is buried
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three days later.
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Ted, Joan, and Ethel
attend the funeral mass.
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Ted felt very strongly
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that his wife, Joan, should accompany him
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to Mary Jo's funeral
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as a sign there was nothing
that she was concerned about
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in his behavior,
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so Joan Kennedy,
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pregnant and on bed rest,
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had to stand by his side -
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and then, very sadly,
suffered a miscarriage.
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The Kennedys have overcome
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tragedy and scandal before,
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but Mary Jo's death at chappaquiddick
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threatens to tarnish
the family name forever.
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There is this sense that Teddy,
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in a family known for courage,
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acted like a coward,
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that he may have tried
to save his own hide
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rather than to save a life,
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and it's a scar on him.
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In the end, the bottom line is that,
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because of Ted's recklessness,
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a woman died.
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Senator Edward Kennedy
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pleads guilty
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to leaving the scene of an accident.
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On account of his unblemished record,
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he receives a suspended sentence.
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Teddy finally breaks his silence
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and goes on television,
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and he's speaking primarily
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to the voters of Massachusetts,
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but he's speaking to the American people,
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and he's speaking to the world.
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My fellow citizens,
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I have requested this opportunity
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to talk to the people of Massachusetts
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about the tragedy
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which happened last Friday evening.
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I would understand full well
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why some might think it right
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for me to resign,
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and so I ask you tonight
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to think this through with me.
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In facing this decision,
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I seek your advice and opinion.
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In making it, I seek your prayers.
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Kennedy, I think, should stay in office.
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It's just an act of god, you might say.
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Would you vote for him in again?
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Definitely.
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We feel that he is human,
people do mistakes.
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I think he'll be the next president
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of the United States.
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Ten to one,
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people responded with letters and cards
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saying, "please stay in office."
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Encouraged by public support,
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Ted decides to continue his senate career.
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Thank you and goodnight.
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In the immediate aftermath
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of chappaquiddick,
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Joseph Kennedy was
another victim of the tragedy.
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By that time, Joe was
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confined to a wheelchair
and could not speak.
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However, he understood
everything that was going on,
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which must have made
it his own private hell.
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Teddy sees his father cry,
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and he sees the devastation
that his father is suffering,
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and Teddy knows, in
1969, after chappaquiddick,
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he is the cause of that,
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and he believed it caused his father
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to give up his will to live.
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Just four months after
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the tragedy at chappaquiddick,
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Joseph p. Kennedy dies
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at the family home in hyannis port.
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He is 81 years old.
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Joe's death
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is another devastating
moment for the Kennedys,
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because Joe had been the architect
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of all of their dreams and ambitions
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from the very beginning.
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This man truly
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lived for his family
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and his dynasty.
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Joseph Kennedy, for all his faults -
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and by god, there were many -
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was an extraordinary father.
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His children loved him.
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They respected him.
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They honored him.
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Joe Kennedy dies
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with his family mired in scandal.
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Ted must now seek redemption.
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The chappaquiddick scandal
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throws the Kennedys' political ambitions
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into disarray.
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There was always, from the very beginning,
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a plan, and the plan was
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jfk was first,
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Bobby was next,
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and then Ted.
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But deep down inside,
I think Ted didn't feel
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that he was worthy of
picking up the mantle.
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You will not reconsider your decision
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about seeking the presidency?
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No, absolutely not.
Under no circumstances.
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Ever?
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I'm not going to answer that.
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That's a long time,
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isn't it, senator?
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You have the expectation
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that that's what you're supposed to do
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because everyone around you
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puts you into that narrative,
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so it's almost that narrative on steroids.
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What would have to happen
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for you to make up your mind?
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I have no precise timeframe.
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But the time was never right for him.
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Chappaquiddick put him out in '72.
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In '76, Jimmy Carter came on the scene.
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In 1973,
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Ted and Joan's eldest son, Edward junior,
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is diagnosed with cancer.
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His leg has to be amputated.
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That's when Ted Kennedy
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found his mission in life,
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which had to do with healthcare reform.
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He felt so outraged
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that people could be dismissed
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simply because they
didn't have the finances
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to get life-saving care.
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And as long as I have a voice
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in the United States senate,
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it's going to be for that
Democratic platform plank
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that provides decent quality of healthcare
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for all Americans
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as a matter of right and not a privilege.
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He began to devote himself to that cause.
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But there was still a feeling
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that he would run for president one day.
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After 16 years in the senate,
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Ted sees his chance to
aim for the white house.
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Nineteen seventy-nine
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is a extraordinarily important moment
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in the history of the United States.
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You have the aftereffects
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of the islamic revolution in Iran.
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Americans are taken hostage in Tehran -
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an unbelievable humiliation.
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The situation at the pumps worsened today.
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There was inflation.
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The American economy
wasn't doing very well.
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I ask congress to give me authority
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for standby gasoline rationing.
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The president looked weak.
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The Democratic party looked weak.
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We want Ted! We want Ted!
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The time is ripe for Ted Kennedy,
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because the liberal democrats
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have soured on Jimmy Carter
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and they're really ready for a restoration
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of the Kennedy dynasty.
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But it's important to remember
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Kennedy would be up
against a formidable challenge.
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He's trying to unseat
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a sitting president of his own party.
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Senator Kennedy's office.
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The family is mixed
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on Teddy running for president in 1980.
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Joan believed that Ted
did have a lot to offer,
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and she still loved him,
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but at this point, they were separated.
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His mother did not want him to run
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for fear that he would be assassinated,
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but once he made the decision,
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they were all in.
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Ted prepares to launch his campaign.
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He appears on national television,
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interviewed in front of millions
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by Roger mudd.
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I was standing just feet away
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as Roger mudd began
his interview with Kennedy.
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Senator, can you tell me,
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are you optimistic about
the future of this country?
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I would say that i'm
hopeful about the future,
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and basically optimistic about it.
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So, Roger mudd begins by asking
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pretty simple questions -
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throwing softballs, really.
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But all of a sudden,
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mudd asks the key question.
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Why do you want to be president?
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Well, i'm...
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He stammers, and he
stumbles, and he fails, really,
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to even complete his sentence.
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The reasons that I
would run is because I...
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Have a great belief in this country,
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that it is--
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there's more natural resources
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than any nation of the world.
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What's wrong with this guy?
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He can't even figure out to Roger mudd
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why he wants to run for president?
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Why should we vote for him?
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The burden to succeed was crushing.
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It was crippling to be
a Kennedy, running -
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for president, after his brothers.
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So I think he just felt
overwhelmed by that.
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This country is not prepared
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to sound retreat.
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It is willing to make a stand,
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and so am I.
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Even though Kennedy goes on
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to fight a spirited battle,
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he never overcomes this stumble
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right out of the blocks.
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When Ted arrives
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at the Democratic national convention,
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he is trailing so far behind Carter
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that he's left with no choice
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but to concede.
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For me, a few hours ago,
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this campaign came to an end.
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For all those whose cares
have been our concern,
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the work goes on,
556
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,000
the cause endures,
557
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000
the hope still lives,
558
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,000
and the dream shall never die.
559
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,000
It is one of the greatest
political speeches
560
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000
of all time.
561
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000
If he had given one percent of that -
562
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000
one percent of that -
563
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,000
as an answer to Roger mudd
564
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000
at the beginning of the campaign,
565
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000
he might well have become president
566
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000
of the United States.
567
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000
Ted Kennedy's presidential ambitions
568
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,000
are over.
569
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000
His marriage to Joan has ended.
570
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000
Ted devotes the Reagan years
571
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000
to working in the senate.
572
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000
I will not be a candidate
573
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,000
for the presidency of the United States
574
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,000
in 1984.
575
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000
It's clear to everyone,
576
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,000
including to him,
577
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,000
that he'll never have another opportunity
578
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000
to run for the presidency,
579
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000
and so the Baton passes
to the next generation.
580
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000
Over a quarter century ago,
581
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000
my father stood before you
582
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000
to accept the nomination
583
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000
for the presidency of the United States.
584
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000
John junior clearly,
585
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,000
by participating in the 1988 convention,
586
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,000
has to know
587
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000
that, once you embrace a public role
588
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000
as the son of the
martyred John F. Kennedy,
589
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000
people are going to start to ask,
590
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,000
"where does this lead?"
591
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000
Thank you.
592
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,000
Ever since he was a boy,
593
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,000
John F. Kennedy junior has been seen
594
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000
as the heir apparent
to the Kennedy throne.
595
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,000
John Kennedy junior
596
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,000
becomes an icon
597
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000
on the very day he turned three years old,
598
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000
the day of his father's funeral,
599
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000
because his mother
leaned over and said to him,
600
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000
"you can salute daddy
now and say goodbye to him."
601
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000
And so that is how the
American people saw him:
602
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000
He would replace his father someday.
603
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,000
Jackie Kennedy
604
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
gave her children two
conflicting legacies.
605
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,000
One was to protect your privacy.
606
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000
The other was exploit your celebrity.
607
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000
I knew her as a fabulous
608
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,000
and devoted mother.
609
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,000
She said, "if you mess
up raising your children,
610
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000
nothing else you do in life much matters."
611
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Jfk junior has his
mother and father's charm.
612
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000
He lacks their all-out ambition.
613
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000
I think his uncle thought more
614
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000
about his political future back then
615
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000
than he did.
616
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
John never wanted it to define him.
617
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,000
We met at university.
618
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,000
I lived with him for two years off-campus.
619
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000
Everything he did was
under the microscope,
620
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000
good and bad, successes and failures.
621
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000
When law-school graduate John junior
622
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,000
fails his bar exams, it's headline news.
623
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000
I'll be back there in July,
624
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,000
and I'll pass it then,
625
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,000
or I'll pass it the next time,
626
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,000
or I'll pass it when I'm 95.
627
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000
He was annoyed by the press.
628
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000
He went to great lengths
629
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000
to keep his marriage to Carolyn bessette
630
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,000
a secret
631
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000
and to marry on an isolated island
632
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000
off the coast of Georgia.
633
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Jackie does not live
to see her son married.
634
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,000
She dies of cancer in may 1994,
635
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000
at the age of 64.
636
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,000
The paparazzi were out there,
637
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000
and everybody was jumping all over him,
638
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000
and I just remember
screaming, at one point,
639
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000
you know, "get away! It's his mother!"
640
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000
You know, give the guy a break.
641
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Jackie had married
642
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle onassis
643
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000
and been widowed for a second time.
644
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,000
She chose to be buried at
Arlington national cemetery,
645
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000
beside her first husband, Jack.
646
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Jackie Kennedy
647
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000
will always be remembered for her courage
648
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000
in the wake of the
assassination of her husband
649
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000
and how, by that courage,
650
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000
she helped to pull the
United States together -
651
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
as well as, I think, to
pull together the world.
652
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000
But after Bobby's death,
653
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000
she was feeling that
her children were next.
654
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
She said, "if they're
coming after Kennedys,
655
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000
then my children are targets."
656
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,000
Jackie Kennedy's decision
657
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000
to pull her family out of the limelight
658
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,000
certainly protected them.
659
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
One of the unintended consequences
660
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
was that, when they got older,
661
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000
there was a real fascination about them.
662
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000
Ladies and gentlemen, meet George!
663
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,000
In 1995,
664
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,000
John junior chooses
his own route into politics.
665
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000
He launches a magazine
that combines politics
666
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
with celebrity culture.
667
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000
George, named after the first president,
668
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000
is designed to be the
rolling stone of politics.
669
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000
I think he wanted to prove to himself,
670
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000
through his own effort and work,
671
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000
that he could do something
672
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000
that would be considered
successful on its own,
673
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,000
without having been given to him
674
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000
through his background,
his name, et cetera.
675
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000
I don't think that I've seen
as many of you in one place
676
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
since they announced the
results of my first bar exam,
677
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
so it's nice to see you all again.
678
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000
This is the cover, with Cindy Crawford.
679
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000
Then, inside, there's
an article by Madonna.
680
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000
George magazine is publishing,
681
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000
which his mother would have loved,
682
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000
and it's politics, which his
father would have loved.
683
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,000
It's all of it, right there
on a silver platter.
684
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000
When jfk junior
685
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000
started George magazine,
686
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,000
everybody in the press
687
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
kind of snickered that it would fail.
688
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
It actually was pretty clever.
689
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
In many ways, George persuaded him,
690
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,000
"I can be a good leader.
691
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
I can be a leader of people."
692
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,000
By embracing public life
693
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
as the founder of George magazine,
694
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
John junior fuels speculation
695
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000
that he might finally run for office.
696
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000
The clear sentiment he received
697
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
from unions, from media figures,
698
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,000
was that, yeah, this is your time.
699
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000
That sure sounds like you haven't given up
700
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000
the notion of maybe going into politics.
701
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Maybe, maybe not.
702
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000
Come on, John.
703
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Hey, no one's ever asked
me that question before.
704
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Really? I know, I'm so original, aren't I?
705
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,000
On July 16th, 1999.
706
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000
John junior pilots his own plane
707
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000
to his cousin Rory's wedding
708
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000
on Cape Cod.
709
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,000
With him are his sister-in-law Lauren
710
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000
and his wife, Carolyn.
711
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
He had only been flying solo
712
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
for a relatively short time.
713
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
He was late in leaving.
714
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000
It became dark as he flew
from the New York City area.
715
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,000
My team from CNN
716
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000
called me to say that
717
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000
John Kennedy's plane is missing.
718
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000
I was beside myself, like all his friends,
719
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
like all his family.
720
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Search and rescue units
721
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
marshaled all their resources.
722
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000
After a five-day search,
723
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000
Navy divers recover three bodies
724
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
amongst the wreckage
725
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000
off the coast of Martha's vineyard.
726
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000
The ashes of John, Carolyn, and Lauren
727
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
are scattered at sea.
728
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
A private memorial mass
729
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000
is held in New York.
730
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000
It seems to fall to Ted Kennedy
731
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000
that he must eulogize
732
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000
everyone who is taken too soon.
733
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000
I think the most difficult moment
734
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
of that funeral service
735
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000
was Teddy's final eulogy,
736
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000
when, at the end,
737
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000
he said that John had every gift
738
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000
but the length of years.
739
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,000
That single line encapsulated
740
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
both the tragedy on a personal level,
741
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000
but also what a tragedy it was
742
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
for what could have been for the country.
743
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000
At the dawn of the new millennium,
744
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Ted continues to carry
745
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000
the hopes and ambitions of the Kennedys.
746
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
I yield to no one
747
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000
in my commitment in that area.
748
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Some call him king of the hill,
749
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
with a hand in every big issue -
750
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000
childcare, healthcare, civil rights,
751
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000
education, minimum wage, arms control...
752
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000
His legislative record is legendary.
753
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000
When is the justice department
754
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000
going to get tough on
white-collar criminals?
755
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
He figures out a way to build Bridges
756
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,000
across these impossible chasms
757
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,000
of race, and party, and class.
758
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000
I say to my friends in
the republican party,
759
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000
"welcome to the debate on education."
760
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000
They consider him one of
the great liberal legislators
761
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,000
of all time now.
762
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Finally, we're talking about healthcare.
763
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,000
"The lion of the senate," they called him.
764
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
He looked like one, had hair like one.
765
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000
But more importantly,
he was so thoughtful.
766
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,000
This is the irishman
767
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,000
who loves people,
who loves to tell a story,
768
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,000
the politician who's
at the top of his game.
769
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000
With Barack Obama,
770
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,000
we'll finally make healthcare
771
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000
what it should be in america:
772
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
A fundamental right for all,
773
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
not just an expensive
privilege for the few.
774
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Ted does not live
775
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:37,000
to realize his dream
of universal healthcare.
776
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
In August 2009,
777
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
at age 77,
778
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000
he dies of brain cancer.
779
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000
He is survived by his second wife, Vicki;
780
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
first wife, Joan; And three children.
781
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Ted had served as a
senator from Massachusetts
782
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000
for nearly 47 years.
783
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,000
The greatest expectations
784
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000
were placed upon Ted Kennedy's shoulders
785
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000
because of who he was,
786
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
but he surpassed them all
787
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000
because of who he became.
788
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Seven months after Ted's death,
789
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000
his great cause, the affordable care act,
790
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
passes into law.
791
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
It was something very inspirational,
792
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,000
to take my father's ultimate dream
793
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000
that we have coverage for everybody
794
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
and actually embed it
into the laws of this nation.
795
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000
He not only was
796
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000
the most powerful senator of his time,
797
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,000
he was a grandfather figure to many of US.
798
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000
We miss him.
799
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Ted began life
800
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000
as the youngest child of
Joseph and Rose Kennedy.
801
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,000
He ended it
802
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
as the head of a dynasty
803
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,000
with over 100 family members.
804
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000
The matriarch - Ted's mother, Rose -
805
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000
died in 1995
806
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000
at the age of 104.
807
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000
Rose Kennedy does not get her due.
808
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000
Her ability to infuse the
exact right combination
809
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000
of competition and compassion...
810
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,000
There's no precedent
in a Democratic society
811
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
for what she created:
812
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,000
This royal family.
813
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Some people enjoy a life
814
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
that's normal and mediocre.
815
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Other people respond to challenges,
816
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,000
and adventure, and attainment.
817
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000
That's who we are.
818
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000
Rose lived long enough
819
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000
to see generation after
generation of Kennedys
820
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
serve their country.
821
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Today, all of you young athletes
822
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,000
are in the arena.
823
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:48,000
Eunice founded
824
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:49,000
the special Olympics,
825
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Jean was an incredible ambassador
826
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
who helped to bring
peace to northern Ireland...
827
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Jack and Jackie's daughter,
828
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Caroline, became the
US ambassador to Japan...
829
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
I'm also proud to carry forward
830
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
my father's legacy of public service.
831
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
You have Joseph Kennedy ii,
832
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
Bobby and Ethel's oldest son,
833
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,000
who served a number of terms in congress,
834
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000
along with his cousin Patrick...
835
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Kathleen Kennedy townsend
836
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000
was the lieutenant governor of Maryland...
837
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000
You have Christopher Kennedy,
838
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000
son of Robert Kennedy,
839
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000
launching his political
career in Illinois...
840
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
It would not be possible
841
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000
to write a complete
history of modern america
842
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000
without talking about the Kennedys
843
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,000
and the contribution that they've made.
844
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
But let US not forget
they were not angels.
845
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
I've been asked by the
newspapermen this afternoon
846
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
what the chances were of appeasement.
847
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,000
They had all sorts of flaws,
848
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,000
some of them very, very serious flaws.
849
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000
They've had more than
their share of scandals,
850
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,000
and they've done some terrible things.
851
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
Some might think it right
852
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000
for me to resign.
853
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
But then there are these
moments of greatness...
854
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
We choose to go to the moon
855
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000
and do the other things,
856
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,000
not because they are easy,
857
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,000
but because they are hard.
858
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,000
...and they inspired US
859
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000
to do things we might
not have otherwise done.
860
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
We are so fortunate that they lived,
861
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000
that they served, and that even today,
862
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000
so many years later,
they continue to inspire
863
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
a whole new generation
of people to get involved.
864
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000
Thank you. Thank you.
865
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
I think, if any of the
succeeding generations
866
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:34,000
will rise to the heights of
the Jack Kennedy generation,
867
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,000
it could be Joseph Patrick Kennedy III,
868
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000
the grandson of Robert Kennedy,
869
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000
who is a member of congress now.
870
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,000
I stand here today,
871
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
the proud son of Irish immigrants,
872
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
to deliver a message
to immigrant families.
873
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000
We understand your willingness
874
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,000
to walk to the ends of the earth,
875
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000
to navigate oceans and mountains
and deserts and war zones,
876
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
because every parent would do the same.
877
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
We know what you've risked
to give them a better future,
878
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
what you've sacrificed to
be part of our United States.
879
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000
This guy could bring the country together.
880
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Joe.
881
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,000
I know you are.
882
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
The sort of big-hearted liberalism,
883
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000
that's about "everybody
together and up we go",
884
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000
that you haven't seen
for a very long time.
885
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000
So anybody who thinks
that the Kennedy story
886
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
stopped with Teddy Kennedy,
887
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
you don't know the Kennedys.
888
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000
These guys are going
to be around a long time.
889
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000
If a new generation of Kennedys
890
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
can come through who think more about
891
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000
what they can give to their country
892
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
than what they can take for themselves,
893
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000
that is really important -
894
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000
to paraphrase president
Kennedy's inauguration.
895
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
And so, my fellow Americans,
896
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:45,000
ask not what your country can do for you.
897
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,000
Ask what you can do for your country.
898
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,000
My fellow citizens of the world,
899
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,000
ask not what america will do for you,
900
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000
but what, together, we can do
901
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
for the freedom of man.
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