conveyed utter shock and grief. meanwhile, bobby goes into some emotional netherworld because he realizes that everybody else may be falling apart but he s got to hold it together. he calls sister eunice and says start planning the funeral. he calls brother ted and he says, you will tell our parents what s just happened. and so it comes to ted to have the most onerous duty possible in that family, to tell the father that president kennedy is dead. ted and eunice didn t want him to hear this from anybody else. they called rose who had heard about it immediately. and they told rose to unplug every television in the house. and they arrive, and they told them. and he started to cry.
kennedy said all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the error. the only sin is pride. bobby was being seen increasingly as a figure around whom the left could rally if it s going to challenge lyndon johnson. in 1968 there s a meeting at bobby kennedy s house to discuss the possibility of him running for the presidency. at that time he was having this debate within himself. he didn t want to be seen as just running against lyndon johnson out of bitterness. i caught you, daddy. also, he knew enough about politics that it s hard to run against a sitting president.
dynasty with over 100 family members. the matriark, ted s mother rose, died in 1985 at the age of 104. rose kennedy does not get her due. her ability to infuse the exact right combination of competition and compassion, there s no precedent in a democratic society for what she created. this royal family. some people enjoy a life that s normal and mead ocher. other people respond to challenges, adventure and entertainment. that s who we are. rose lived long enough to see generation after generation of kennedys serve their country. today all you young athletes are in the arena.
ultimately, to his hotel room at edgar town and fell asleep. he waited nine hours to report it. that was, you know, unfathomable to most people. a diver recovers her body the next morning. she was 28 years old. the death at chappaquiddick was a tragedy enough but the way teddy handled it made it infanti inindependently worse. all the first moves was about protecting his reputation, nothing about mary jo s death. mary jo is buried three days later. ted felt very strongly that his wife joan should accompany
do with health care reform. he felt so outraged that people could be dismissed simply because they didn t have the finances to get lifesaving care. and as long as i am a voice in the united states senate it s going to be for that democratic platform plank that provides decent quality of health care for all americans as a matter of right and not of privilege. he began to devoted himself to that cause but there was still feeling that he would run for president one day. after 16 years in the senate ted sees his chance to aim for the white house. 1979 is an extraordinarily important moment in the history of the united states. you have the after effects of the islamic revolution in iran. americans are taken hostage in