The best Ted Kennedy quote ever

 [image: Andy Warhol Polaroid of Kennedy]

"I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is." - Teddy Kennedy, 1986

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JFK, RFK, Teddy, and sister Patricia's orgies at the Carlyle in NYC

The Chairman of the Board

by Jack Brummet

Social Mores editor

Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marilyn Monroe

In the early 1960's, the FBI was tracking what went on in Jack Kennedy's apartment at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, and in particular, the "sex parties" that occurred there, at least according to Mrs. Jacqueline Hammond.

Some of the participants mentioned in a recently released (under the FOI Act) FBI report include:  Frank Sinatra, JFK's younger brothers Bobby and Teddy, Marilyn Monroe, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lawford (Mrs. Peter Lawford was JFK's sister Patricia).

  

JFK and Marilyn in a clinch

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Farewell to Senator Ted Kennedy

click to enlarge the Senator

Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal icon of the Senate died tonight, after a battle with brain cancer.

Teddy was elected to the Senate while brother John was president, and brother Robert, Attorney General. He ended up serving longer in the Senate than all but two senators. Ever. (Are the other two the late Strom Thurmond and the not late Robert Byrd?)

Namaste to the youngest brother, and thanks for everything you've done. We talk about Bobby and Jack, and rightfully so, but Teddy had forty more years to stir the pot--and he did. He's had his hand in nearly every piece of important social legislation since 1968. Like his brother Bobby, he wasn't an underdog but he came to be a champion of the underdog, the hurting and forgotten, as well as the middle class. He didn't throw many bones to the wealthy. When Ted Kennedy was on, he could give an amazing speech too. When you talk about civil rights, war and peace, and health care, and social security, his name always pops up. I will miss his avuncular and wise presence, and above all, his conscience.
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