The last Kennedy

Edward Kennedy finally lost to brain cancer, and what did the rest of us lose?

My father knew both Ted and his brother, in dad's capacity as assistant Surgeon General in the 60's. He didn't much like Robert, who he saw as the wheeler and dealer, the consummate politician. Edward was a good politician, too, but he was also a graceful man given to abstractions ... friendly rather than confrontational, not given to anger or righteousness..

I was a teenager in the 60's, and Bobby was one of our heroe