Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died (31 page)

4.
ACP.

5.
JCPL/WHCF.

6.
Ibid.

7.
HJF.

8.
Clymer, p. 277.

9.
ACP.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Ibid.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Ibid.

16.
www.aniericanrhetoric.com/
speeches/tedkennedy1980dnc.htm
.

C
HAPTER
16

1.
ACP.

2.
Chellis, p. 247.

3.
Ibid., p. 272.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Ibid., p. 275.

6.
ACP.

7.
Clymer, pp. 385–86.

8.
Ibid., p. 385.

9.
Wills, p. 295.

10.
Clymer, p. 353.

11.
Interview with anonymous source, June 10, 2008.

12.
Author’s interview with anonymous source, June 10, 2008.

13.
Interview with anonymous source, April 7, 2008.

14.
Interview with anonymous source, April 6, 2008; July 2, 3, 11, 24, 2008.

15.
ACP.

C
HAPTER
17

1.
Interview with anonymous source, June 10, 2008.

2.
Interview with anonymous source, May 30, 2008; June 14, 2008.

3.
Clymer, p. 246.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Interview with anonymous source, June 10, 2008.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Interview with anonymous source, May 16, 2008.

8.
Clymer, p. 247.

9.
David, p. 254.

10.
Atkinson, “Why Ted Kennedy Can’t Stand Still,” Washington Post, April 29, 1990.

11.
Jack Newfield, “The Senate’s Fighting Liberal,” The Nation, March 25, 2002.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Ibid.

14.
Atkinson, “Why Ted Kennedy Can’t Stand Still,”
Washington Post
, April 29, 1990.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Ibid.

C
HAPTER
18

1.
Fee, Gayle, and Laura Rposa, “New Divorce Settlement for Joan K,”
Boston Herald
, June 26, 1996.

2.
Interview with anonymous source, June 15, 2008.

3.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amexkennedyspeopleevents/1_wealth
.

4.
Clymer, p. 252.

5.
Saul, Michael, “Caroline Kennedy: The $100M Woman,” nydaily
news.com
, February 11, 2009.

C
HAPTER
19

1.
Interview with anonymous source.

2.
Rushing, J. Taylor, “Where Right Sees Bogeyman, GOP Sens. See Go-To-Guy,”
thehill.com
, May 21, 2008.

3.
Atkinson, “Why Ted Kennedy Can’t Stand Still,”
Washington Post
, April 29, 1990.

4.
Beschloss, Michael, remarks on
launch of Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, December 6, 2004.

5.
Levenson, Michael, “Joan Kennedy Hurt in Fall; Son Won’t Seek Senate,”
Boston Globe
, March 31, 2005.

6.
Wedge, Dave, and Michele McPhee, “The Fall of Joan,”
Boston
magazine, August 2005.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Interview with Webster Janssen, May 1, 2008.

9.
Eagan, Margery, “Joan K’s Tragic Saga Plays Out in Public,”
Boston Herald
., June 12, 2005.

10.
Interview with anonymous source, March 10, 2008.

11.
Brown, Carrie Budoff, “Kennedy Family Split on Endorsements,”
The Politico
, December 17, 2007.

12.
Kelly, Michael, “A Sober Look at Ted Kennedy,”
GQ
, 1990.

13.
Clymer, p. 57.

14.
www.observer.com/node44680
.

15.
Huffington Post
, May 5, 2008.

16.
Cullen, Kevin, “Always a Fighter,”
Boston Globe
, May 18, 2008.

17.
Ibid.

C
HAPTER
20

1.
The description of EMK’s awakening on the morning of May 17, 2008, is based on an interview with one of his nephews, who requested anonymity.

2.
David, p. 12.

3.
Interview with anonymous source, October 2008.

4.
Clymer, p. 34.

5.
Ted Kennedy described the physical sensations that accompanied his seizure and the thoughts that went through his mind to his nephew Joseph Kennedy Jr., who visited the senator in the hospital within a few hours of the event.

6.
Interview with anonymous source, May 19, 2008.

7.
Romano, Lois, “The Steadfast Wind in the Senator’s Sails,”
Washington Post
, May 30, 2008.

8.
ACP.

9.
Vicki Kennedy’s “over the edge” behavior was recounted by Ted Kennedy to the relatives who visited him in the hospital directly after his seizure.

10.
Duby, pp. 4–5.

11.
Time
, August 2, 1999.

12.
www.absoluteastronomy.com/
topics/kathleen_kennedy_townsevd
.

13.
Interview with anonymous source, April 7, 2008.

14.
Romano, “The Steadfast Wind in the Senator’s Sails,”
Washington Post
, May 30, 2008.

15.
Sullivan, p. 24.

16.
Interview with anonymous source, April 7, 2008.

17.
Ibid.

C
HAPTER
21

1.
Interview with anonymous source, July 6, 2008.

2.
Romano, Lois, “The Steadfast Wind in the Senator’s Sails,”
Washington Post
, May 30, 2008.

3.
Abel, David, “Smooth Sail for Kennedy and Crew,”
Boston Globe
, May 27, 2008.

4.
McCormick, Cynthia, “Falmouth Family Faces Same Battle as Kennedy’s,”
capecodonline.com
, July 24, 2008.

5.
Altman, Lawrence K., “The Story behind Kennedy’s Surgery,”
New York Times
, July 29, 2008.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Cortez, Michelle Fay, and Tom Randall, “Kennedy’s Surgery May Give Doctors Options to Try New Medicines,”
Bloomberg.com
, June 3, 2008.

8.
Lynn, Kellye, “Hopkins Doctor Consulted in Kennedy Case,”
wjz.com
, June 4, 2008.

9.
Strickland, Eliza, “Ted Kennedy Goes Under the Knife,” Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain,
Discover
, June 2, 2008.

10.
Collins, Kristin, “Kennedy Chose Mozart of Brain Surgeons,”
(Raleigh) Mews & Observer
, June 29, 2008.

11.
Fox, Maggie, “Wide-Awake Brain Surgery Requires Special Care,” Reuters, June 2, 2008.

C
HAPTER
22

1.
Interview with Benedict Fitzgerald, July 20, 2008.

2.
CNN.com
, July 9, 2008.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Hulse, Carl, and Robert Pear, “Kennedy Returns to Help Pass Medicare Bill,”
New York Times
, July 10, 2008.

5.
David, p. 199.

6.
“An Honor Role of Master Legislators,”
New York Times
, May 25, 2008.

7.
Honan, pp. 113–14.

8.
Atkinson, “Why Ted Kennedy Can’t Stand Still,”
Washington Post
, April 29, 1990.

9.
Raum, Tom, “Ailing Kennedy Fading as Top Target for Right Wing,” Associated Press, May 30, 2008.

10.
Clymer, p. 353.

11.
Hulse, “Kennedy Returns to Help Pass Medicare Bill,”
New York Times
, July 10, 2008.

12.
Fein, Leonard, “A Drum Major for Righteous Indignation,”
Jewish Daily Forward
, July 17, 2008.

E
PILOGUE

1.
Interview with anonymous source, July 12, 2008.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Interview with anonymous source, January 14, 2009.

5.
Interview with anonymous source, January 22, 2009.

6.
The Times
of London, December 30, 2008.

7.
Lovett, Kenneth, “Caroline Kennedy Interviewed by Gov. Paterson for Hillary’s Senate Seat,”
nydailynews.com
, February 16, 2009.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Allison, Lynn, “Ted Resting after Secret Procedure,”
National Enquirer
, February 16, 2009.

11.
Weisman, Jonathan; Laura Meckler; and Naftali Bendavid, “Obama on Defense as Daschle Withdraws,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 4, 2009.

12.
Cillizza, Chris, “White House Cheat Sheet: The Hard Math on the Senate Vote,”
Washingtonpost.com
, February 10, 2009.

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CKNOWLEDGMENTS

1.
Remini, p. 252.

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