In 1980, Senator Edward Kennedy delivered the Keynote Speech of the Democratic National Convention after he lost the nomination to President Carter. In this address, considered by many a classic speech in American politics, he spoke of all the golden friends he had met while campaigning across the country, such as students without tuition money, elderly without rent, parents without the means to support their children, workers made idle by a
factory shutdown. He also quoted the poet Tennyson's line "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield before he concluded with his vow - "the work goes on, the dream shall never die."

My most enduring memory of him will always be his eulogy for Bobby when his voice cracked and I fell apart. But Teddy took up the torch of his older brothers and did not let their dreams die. Even in the final days of his life he was continuing the battle for health care reform. I just have this image in my mind of him wanting a little more time to keep up the fight. I want him to know it is all right to rest now.

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