Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said today she saw no reason for Western countries to lift sanctions against the military-dominated government, but the issue had to be discussed.
Myanmar, ruled by the military since a 1962 coup, held its first elections in two decades last year and authorities later released Suu Kyi from house arrest. But the military shows no sign of loosening its grip.
Suu Kyi’s political party said on Tuesday it supported Western sanctions but wanted talks on whether to modify them, signalling a willingness to discuss a more flexible approach.
Suu Kyi (picture), asked at a party function today to elaborate, said sanctions had to be discussed.
elford and Wrekin Council employees prepare the Iron Bridge Toll House in Shropshire as a polling station for the Parliamentary and Local Election
Millions of people across Britain will today go to the polls in the most tightly-contested General Election in a generation.
A string of eve-of-election opinion polls gave David Cameron's Conservatives a clear lead over Labour and the Liberal Democrats, but suggested that the Tories will not reach the level of support they need to claim an overall majority in the House of Commons.
With around 50,000 polling stations opening at 7am today, there was more uncertainty about who would eventually emerge as Prime Minister than in any election since 1992 and a real expectation of a hung Parliament for the first time since 1974.
On Wednesday night David Cameron urged the public not to allow fear to “triumph over hope” as he sought an outright victory with a final appeal to millions of undecided voters.
The Tory leader completed a gruelling 36-hour campaigning drive across the country with a pledge that he could make Britain better.
Busted: Senator Mike Bennett looks at his computer screen - on which there is an image of topless women - while on the Senate floor during the debate of an abortion bill
'I was bored': Mike Bennett (file photo) claimed the image was in an email that he unwittingly opened from a colleague
In his flimsy defence, he was bored.
Unfortunately for Florida Senator Mike Bennett, that's just not a good enough reason to be looking at pictures of topless women while on the Senate floor.
Especially not while using his state-issued computer.
And especially not while a colleague is arguing that the law currently being debated is 'disrespectful towards women'.
David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown shake hands after the TV debate
Labour has vowed to carry on fighting to polling day after Gordon Brown failed to make the party's hoped-for breakthrough in the final leaders' debate.
A clutch of instant polls following the last of three televised head-to-heads made David Cameron clear winner, with the Prime Minister again trailing in third place.
With just a week to go and Labour still behind in the overall opinion polls, the party had been hoping desperately that Mr Brown would put in a performance that would change the dynamics of the campaign.
Mr Cameron cautioned that the election was "far from won" for the Conservatives and said that he would spend the next six days concentrating on winning every vote.
Labour election co-ordinator Douglas Alexander also insisted that the result of the election remained "wide open", and said that Mr Brown would carry on fighting until the end.
The U.S. Justice Department charged four men on Tuesday with tampering with phones in the New Orleans office of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, one of them a conservative filmmaker who last year provoked a scandal involving a liberal grass-roots group.
The FBI said among those arrested on Monday was James O'Keefe, who, posing as a pimp and accompanied by a woman pretending to be a prostitute, filmed workers with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, giving advice on how to flout housing laws.
The film attracted a big audience after being posted on YouTube.
"This is a very unusual situation and somewhat unsettling for me and my staff," Landrieu said in a statement. "I am as interested as everyone else about their motives and purpose, which I hope will become clear as the investigation moves forward."
According to the criminal complaint, two of O'Keefe's associates dressed as telephone repairmen entered the office of the Louisiana senator in the Hale Boggs Federal Building under the pretense of performing repairs.
While O'Keefe used a mobile phone to film them, Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel "manipulated the telephone system" in the reception area of Landrieu's office, the FBI said.
The men were apprehended by U.S. marshals after Flanagan and Basel tried later to gain access to telephone equipment in the U.S. General Services Administration office in the same building, the agency said.
Flanagan and Basel were dressed in denim work suits, florescent vests, tool belts and hard hats, the FBI said. The two admitted later they were not telephone repairmen, according to the affidavit.
A fourth man, Stan Dai, was arrested for having helped O'Keefe, Flanagan and Basel in "planning, coordination and preparation of the operation," the FBI said in a statement.
Two months ago, few would have heard of the state senator, and rarely has a freshman senator come to the nation's capitol with so much fanfare. But his shocking win has rattled the political world and threatens to topple Democrats' health care agenda, even before he is sworn in.
On the eve of President Obama's State of the Union address and the end of his first year in office, Republican Scott Brown's astonishing win in the Massachusetts special Senate race not only reset politics in that state, but reset politics for the entire nation.
"The entire political community was caught a little bit unawares on that one," White House senior adviser David Axelrod said today on ABC's "This Week" of Brown's win.
After Brown's upset win ended the 60-seat majority in the Senate that Democrats needed in order to push through health care reform without a Republican vote, the White House is adjusting its political operation by bringing in Obama's 2008 presidential campaign manager David Plouffe. The move comes ahead of mid-term elections in the House and Senate this November, where Republicans hope to capitalize on the momentum of Brown's win and pick up more seats, which could further endanger the president's agenda.
White House advisers played down Plouffe's hire, denying an association with Brown's win.
"David Plouffe has been a regular adviser to the president throughout the year," White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"We have a very strong political operation. What it's a reflection of is that David was working on his book for the last year. He's done with that now. He's enormously talented, as everyone knows, and he brings value added to our operation as we look forward, in terms of strategy and tactics, and he'll be consulting with us on that, and we'll be stronger for it," Axelrod said.
Also back were themes from Obama's presidential campaign.
"This president's never going to stop fighting to create jobs, to raise incomes, and to push back on the special interests' dominance in Washington and this withering partisanship that keeps us from solving problems," Axelrod said.
Axelrod said those same themes propelled Brown to victory.
"This is the Obama who ran for president," he said. "And the themes that he talked about in that campaign were very much echoed by Senator Brown in his campaign, which tells you that the hunger for that kind of leadership is still very strong."
In another throwback to campaign rhetoric, on Friday at a town hall meeting in Elyria, Ohio, Obama used the word "fight" more than 20 times.
White House advisers say the president will continue with his current health care reform push despite Brown's win.
"The underlying elements of it are popular and important. And people will never know what's in that bill until we pass it, the president signs it, and they have a whole range of new protections they never had before," Axelrod said.
Yet Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued Americans were against the Democrats' health care reform initiative, citing a recent Washington Post/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University poll of Massachusetts voters that found that 48 percent opposed the health-care proposals advanced by Obama and congressional Democrats while 43 percent of them said they supported them.
"The people are telling us, 'Please don't pass this bill.' Now, if they get past this arrogant phase that they've been stuck in for about a year that, 'We know best. We don't want to listen to public opinion here, we want to 'make history,' if they can work their way past that and concentrate on the real problem, which is the cost, we're willing to look at it." McConnell said on NBC.
"We see it all over the country in tea parties and town halls. People are alarmed and angry about the spending, the debt, the government takeovers," said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., on ABC.
Obama's advisers say they understand people are frustrated.
"I think people are angry in this country -- they were angry in Massachusetts -- that we haven't made more progress on the economy," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said on "FOX News Sunday."
"I think we have to stay focused on solving people's problems, and I think the politics will flow from there," Plouffe said in an interview with ABC News.
Obama has an opportunity to address that frustration in his State of the Union address this Wednesday evening, when he can speak directly to the American people.
"He'll be able to set forth his priorities, and they will be focusing on the middle class. Our middle class is struggling out there. they're frustrated, they're angry, they're working hard to try to make ends meet. They're having to make terrible choices between paying their rent and putting food on the table and paying for their health care and sending their kids to college. These are the same principles that the president advocated in the course of the campaign," Jarrett said, previewing the speech.
"I think the reason that you had the victories in Virginia and New Jersey and most improbably in Massachusetts of all places was the American people are saying, 'We want to go in a different direction.' I hope the president will get the message and change direction , and we'll begin to see that next Wednesday night," McConnell said. "
Old friends: Obama and Kaine addressing reporters at the Democratic National Committee in January
Prank call: President Barack Obama played a practical joke on Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine by phoning up a radio station and pretending to be a voter
Barack Obama played a practical joke on a political colleague by phoning into a radio station and pretending to be a disgruntled voter.
The US president posed as 'Barry from DC' as a wind-up on Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine.
He said: 'Governor Kaine this is actually the president the United States here.
I had questions about traffic in North Virginia, but rather than go there I just wanted to say how proud we are of your service as governor of the commonwealth of Virginia and just wish you and the family the best this Christmas season after a terrific round of service for the people of Virginia.'
He was speaking on 'Ask the Governor' on Washington-based station WTOP as the governor is set to step down after four years in office.
After the surprised governor had composed himself, he said how proud he'd been to work with the president since he was elected to office a year ago. He said: 'That means a lot a lot. As I think back about my four years as governor I still think my happiest day as governor was in November 2008 and the great work we did across the nation and in Virginia was spectacular.
'We're lucky and the nation is lucky, It's been an amazing first year of your administration.'
But Obama couldn't resist poking more fun at the governor's expense.
He said: 'We are just very proud of you, we continue to think that your wife is probably a little superior to you, as I think people feel about the First Lady.
'You and me have to stick together as we're married to better people.'
President Obama and Ex President Jimmy Carter. Carter accuse racism are basic reason for intensity objections obama received.
Former President Jimmy Carter fueled a renewed political furor over race by saying Rep Joe Wilson's outburst during President Barack Obama's speech last week was "based on racism."
The former president's remarks drew a rebuke Wednesday from Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, who called accusations of racism "an outrage."
The White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday, "The president does not believe that the criticism comes based on the color of his skin."
Mr. Obama has sought during his presidential campaign and much of his first months in office to downplay racial divisions. But Mr. Wilson's shout of "You lie," during Mr. Obama's speech on health care, and the reaction to that event, have brought sensitive issues of race back to the surface.
Mr. Carter made his remarks about Rep. Wilson's interruption in response to a question at a town-hall meeting in Atlanta on Tuesday. "There is an inherent feeling among many people in this country that an African-American ought not to be president, and ought not to be given the same respect as if he were white," Mr. Carter said.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man," Carter told NBC News.
He said this "racism inclination still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."
Mr. Steele, who is African-American, replied on Wednesday. "Characterizing Americans' disapproval of President Obama's policies as being based on race is an outrage and a troubling sign about the lengths Democrats will go to disparage all who disagree with them," Mr. Steele said."President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn't about race. It is about policy," he said in a statement. "This is a pathetic distraction by Democrats to shift attention away from the president's wildly unpopular government-run healthcare plan that the American people simply oppose."
The furor didn't prompt Mr. Carter to back down. He reiterated his argument in a talk Wednesday night at Emory University, citing various attacks on Mr. Obama, though not Mr. Wilson's comment.
Mr. Wilson couldn't be reached Wednesday. On the Washington Times'"America's Morning News" radio program Wednesday, Mr. Wilson said, "That is such a distraction and a diversion from the issues that we should be discussing."
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Obama, America's first black president, was steering clear of the issue, weeks after he injected himself into a debate about race in Massachusetts after black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested at his own home on suspicion of breaking into it.
After Obama created an uproar by saying that Cambridge, Massachusetts, police had acted stupidly in the case, he later expressed regret for the tone of his remarks and had the professor and police officer to the White House for a beer in what was dubbed a "beer summit."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the uproar among Obama's opponents was more likely a reaction to some of the decisions Obama had made to help the U.S. economy, such as bank and auto bailouts.
"We understand that people have disagreements with some of the decisions that we've made," he said.
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President Jimmy Carter tells Brian Williams that the Hatred against President Obama is Racism. Keith talks about the racist overtones by the republicans and their followers. The signs are out there. We have all seen them. -------------
President Obama’s speech to the AFL-CIO yesterday was part of an aggressive new effort to sell his health care overhaul to the public.
President Obama touched on Pittsburgh's labor history at the AFL-CIO convention.
Obama spoke for less than half an hour in front of several thousand people at the David Lawrence Convention Center for the AFL-CIO, a national and international network of labor unions. Its annual convention also featured Sens. Bob Casey,D-Pa., and Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
Sen. Arlen Specter is joined by President Obama at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.Obama's appearance came nearly five months after Specter, a five-term incumbent, bolted from the Republican Party and became a Democrat, in part to avoid a looming GOP primary rematch against former congressman Pat Toomey. Instead, Specter faces a tough fight on the political left from Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) for the Democratic nomination."Arlen is not someone who came to Washington to fight for a particular ideology," said Obama, at the Philadelphia Convention Center. "He came to fight for the working men and women of Pennsylvania. That's why you should send him back for another six years, because you know he's going to fight for you."
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President Obama told the AFL-CIO yesterday that his administration has “stopped our economic free fall’’ and is determined to seal a recovery while revitalizing America’s middle class.Obama spoke for less than half an hour in front of several thousand people at the David Lawrence Convention Center for the AFL-CIO, a national and international network of labor unions. Its annual convention also featured Sens. Bob Casey,D-Pa., and Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
Telling the labor federation’s convention that the administration is a fierce supporter of workers’ rights and a defender of unions, Obama also challenged union members to stand with him on the hard-fought push for an overhaul of the health care system.
“One of the fundamental reasons I ran for president was to stand up for working families,’’ Obama said on a day of campaign-style, populist events designed to appeal to politically active union members, who helped put him in office and whose support is crucial to his domestic agenda.
“When our middle class succeeds, that’s when the United States of America succeeds. That’s what we’re fighting for,’’ he said.
The appearances were part of Obama’s aggressive new effort to sell his health care overhaul, following a speech last week to Congress and a slew of interviews and appearances the White House has arranged.
Earlier yesterday, he toured a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and claimed credit for an improving economy.
Pledging to stand firm with autoworkers, Obama told them his administration had no choice but to intervene and prevent the collapse of automakers. He told GM employees that their company has retooled itself and is heading back to a solid business, in part, because of its workforce.
“Your survival and the success of our economy depended on making sure that we got the US auto industry back on its feet,’’ Obama said, standing near a production line where compact Chevrolet Cobalts are produced.
He said those small cars were among the most popular under his temporary “cash for clunkers’’ program, which offered drivers up to $4,500 to buy fuel-efficient autos.
While Obama acknowledged that recovery would not be simple or swift, he said the nation cannot allow towns like this one - a major employer in a region that has seen steel furnaces go cold as globalization moved jobs abroad - to crack under the economic pressure.
“As long as you’ve still got an ounce of fight left in you, I’ve got a ton of fight left in me,’’ he vowed. “I’ve said it before: I’m skinny, but I’m tough.’’
President Barack Obama holds health insurance reform rally, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
In this photo provided by FOX News, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., appears on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/FOX News Sunday, Freddie Lee)
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is interviewed on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in Washington
In this photo provided by FOX News, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., appears on "Fox News Sunday" in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is interviewed on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Obama speaks to a joint session of Congress on health care at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Sept. 9, 2009. Obama decried the "partisan spectacle" that has stymied the debate over health care in recent months
President Barack Obama said he is confident Congress will pass "a good health care bill," as months of rancor over reforming the nation's health care system seemed to be easing Sunday, with the White House playing down an immediate role for a government insurance option.
At the same time, Obama was critical of Republican opponents who he said were trying to block an overhaul of the nation's heath care system for political gain.
"I believe that we will have enough votes to pass not just any health care bill, but a good health care bill that helps the American people, reduces costs, actually over the long-term controls our deficit. I'm confident that we've got that," Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes. "There are those in the Republican party who think the best thing to do is just to kill reform. That that will be good politics."
"I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails. That doesn't work," Obama told CBS. "You know, I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it."
Obama wants to make sure that any overhaul imposes strict measures to ban companies from refusing insurance to people with existing medical conditions, dropping coverage when policyholders become ill and imposing caps on what a person can claim for one illness or in his lifetime.
He told CBS he didn't want Americans to say in the future: "'You know what? This hasn't reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25 percent, insurance companies are still jerking me around.'
"I'm the one who's going to be held responsible," Obama said. "So I have every incentive to get this right."
Obama is trying to sweeten the deal for Republicans by indicating he is open to their ideas.
In his Wednesday speech and again in the CBS interview, the president signaled he was open the idea of so-called tort reform. Under current practice, doctors and hospitals must pay huge amounts to insure themselves against malpractice lawsuits by patients seeking large court-ordered settlements for poor treatment.
Democrats, thanks to heavy backing from lawyers, have not supported Republican efforts to limit such payments. Doctors — and Republican politicians — say the current system drives up costs through unneeded medical procedures ordered by physicians who fear being sued.
"I would be willing to ... consider any ideas out there that would actually work in terms of reducing costs, improving the quality of patient care," Obama said in the Sunday interview, which was taped Friday.
While he said he did not back limits on court-ordered rewards for malpractice, he said "there are a range of ideas that are out there, offered by doctors' organizations like the AMA (American Medical Association), that I think we can explore."
"I specifically said that I think we can work together on a bipartisan basis to do something to reduce defensive medicine, where doctors are worrying about lawsuits instead of worrying about patient care," Mr. Obama said in the interview, which aired Sunday.
Republicans had suggested after Mr. Obama's address last week that the president's overture didn't go far enough. Many Republicans believe that limiting medical professionals' liability in malpractice suits is key to bringing down health-care costs.
A central issue in the debate is whether to impose caps on monetary payments awarded in medical malpractice suits. There is broad support among Republicans for such caps, but Democrats have long opposed them.
Signaling that he is only willing to compromise so much on the issue, Mr. Obama on Sunday said he didn't support caps on payments. "So far the evidence I've seen is that caps will not" reduce costs, he said.
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President Barack Obamas Heath and Human Services Secretary backed off requirements that a heath care reform bill include a public insurance option. A key Democratic Senator, Kent Conrad, declared the public option dead in the Senate. But Howard Dean predicts that the bill will pass with the public option intact.
It will pass with the public option, and the president will sign it sometime in December,
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Sen. Kent Conrad told Fox News' Chris Wallace that there are not enough votes in the Senate to pass a public option for health insurance. "The fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option. There never have been," said Conrad. ----------------------
President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress, on Feb. 24, 2009. Tonight, in his second address, he will press his case for major health care legislation.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, as President Barack Obama delivered a speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington."You lie!" Wilson shouted from his seat on the Republican side of the chamber.Republicans froze, with several looking in Wilson's direction.House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said "I have never in my 29 years heard an outburst of that nature with reference to a president of the United States speaking as a guest of the House and Senate."
In an extraordinary breach of congressional decorum, a Republican lawmaker shouted "You lie" at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress Wednesday.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., tried to call Obama to apologize in person, but ended up speaking to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
The contrite congressman, "expressed his apologies" to Emanuel, not the president at whom he had shouted a few hours earlier, Wilson's office said.
By that time, Wilson's House Web site had crashed and he had taken a brutal beating on his Twitter page for breaching protocol and good manners during a presidential speech to a joint session of Congress.
"This evening I let my emotions get the best of me," Wilson said in a statement. "While I disagree with the president's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility."
Wilson's outburst came after Obama said that extending health care to all Americans who seek it would not mean insuring illegal immigrants.
"You lie!" Wilson shouted from his seat on the Republican side of the chamber.
Republicans froze, with several looking in Wilson's direction.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed a fierce frown at him; first lady Michelle Obama pursed her lips and shook her head from side to side. Vice President Joe Biden looked down and shook his head, too.
Obama, meanwhile, looked toward the outburst and replied, "That's not true," and went on with his speech.
Right away, Wilson seemed to sense that he had fouled up. Wilson appeared to consult his Blackberry for much of the rest of Obama's speech. He shook his head defiantly after several of the president's statements. When Obama finished, Wilson bolted from the chamber.
Wilson's wasn't the only interruption during Obama's speech, but it was the most notable.
Obama's Republican rival from last year's presidential race for the White House defended the president.
Wilson's behavior was "totally disrespectful," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on CNN. "There is no place for it in that setting, or any other, and he should apologize for it immediately."
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said "I have never in my 29 years heard an outburst of that nature with reference to a president of the United States speaking as a guest of the House and Senate."
"It was a shameful act," he told WTOP radio.
Hoyer said he'll work with GOP lawmakers to decide whether to punish Wilson.
* Crowds begin to form where Kennedy will lie in state
* Massachusetts governor wants to name interim successor
Family members of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy gathered on Thursday for a private mass at the seaside home where the 77-year-old towering figure in Democratic politics died two days ago.
As Boston prepared for three more days of tributes to the patriarch of one of America's most famous political dynasties, state officials took up the question of how quickly they could replace the state's senior senator, who had brain cancer.
Governor Deval Patrick told the Boston Globe that he wanted to honor Kennedy's wish to change state laws to allow him to name an interim senator to hold the post during the approximately five-month period until an election can be held.
Patrick and fellow Democratic lawmakers including Massachusetts Senator John Kerry have said that filling Kennedy's seat quickly will be vitally important as Congress works on overhauling the U.S. healthcare system.
Throughout his 47 years in the Senate, Kennedy advocated healthcare reform, which has become a key initiative of U.S. President Barack Obama. Kennedy's death leaves the Democrats one vote shy of the 60-member super-majority they need to override any attempted Republic filibusters. ---------------
With President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, all the surviving former presidents and many current and former members of Congress expected to attend Saturday's funeral, security will be very tight.
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The Kennedy family gathers in Hyannisport after the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Tragedy struck the Kennedy family again when the son of John and Jackie perished in a plane crash, along with wife and sister-in-law, on July 16, 1999.
Joan Kennedy
The first wife of Sen. Ted Kennedy (they divorced in 1982), Joan stood by her husband through both campaigns and tragedies, and has spoken publically about her own battle with alcoholism.
The Kennedy Legacy The Kennedy dynasty extends far beyond John, Ted and Bobby. The children and grandchildren of this famous family are carrying on the legacy.
Robert F. Kennedy He served as U.S. attorney general and a was senator for New York before being assassinated, like his brother John, during a promising run for the presidency in 1968.
Caroline Kennedy
The only daughter of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, she maintained a private life until she made a very public bid for the New York senate seat in 2008. She's also carried on her parents' love for helping philanthropic causes.
Edward M. Kennedy
The youngest of the Kennedy children, Ted was the last surviving son of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His long career in public service earned him the nickname "The Lion of the Senate."
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The wife of JFK and mother of John Jr. and Caroline, she remained a symbol of class and style through her tenure as first lady, her second marriage to Aristotle Onassis and after her death.
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Ted Kennedy's political career is remembered at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. Jeff Greenfield reports on the Kennedy family's legacy in Washington. ------------------------
