Kennedy kept working through illness to the end
Vicki Kennedy reported Ted Kennedy’s decline as cancer took its toll yet noted his enduring grit. He pressed on with final projects, including the memoir True Compass and a health care reform plea, while family memories and sails offered respite at Hyannis Port.
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Kennedy legislative feats span 46 years in Senate
Edward M. Kennedy's long Senate career shaped U.S. life by boosting the minimum wage expanding health coverage protections for workers with newborns or illness and disability rights. He worked with Tom Harkin on the Americans with Disabilities Act and helped enact No Child Left Behind and Head Start and immigration reforms alongside the 1965 act.
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A public wake continues at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston until 4 p.m. Friday followed by a Celebration of Life Memorial Service at 7 p.m. with media coverage. Kennedy’s funeral Mass is planned for Saturday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Burial will be private at Arlington National Cemetery.
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