My Very Tenuous Kennedy Connection
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Much has been written about Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death at 77. Something he once told me inspired today’s column.
Here’s the beginning:
“About 10 years ago, I shook hands with Ted Kennedy.
It was at a New York City fundraiser for his niece Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Bobby’s daughter, who was then lieutenant governor of Maryland. My cousin, a big wheel in the financial world, organized the event, which is why I was granted a brief audience with the senator.
The event was held at the Local 1199 headquarters of the Service Employees International Union, a sizable and politically influential part of Kennedy’s liberal fan base. A tireless advocate for the poor who inarguably did more to advance the cause of health care reform than anyone, Kennedy was nothing if not a hero to the hospital workers.”
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
An apocryphal sign in front of the waterfront Kennedy Compound in Florida says it all: “Trespassers Will Be Violated,”
Kennedy was a jerk.