TED KENNEDY PROPOSES MONUMENT TO HIMSELF (BWAAAA HAAA HAAA!!)

Newsmax ^ | 12/7/04

[areafiftyone]

Teddy Kennedy is raising a reported $3.5 million to pay for an oral history project he conceived that will memorialize his life.

The project is unique in that it will be the first ever oral history of a sitting U.S. senator.

The project will be carried out by the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, which has created oral histories of President Jimmy Carter and is doing others on presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

According to the Boston Globe, however, it has never made a senator the subject of a historical study.

The newspaper reported that the Miller Center will interview more than 100 of Kennedy's former and current staff members, colleagues from both sides of the aisle, family and other notable figures who have known him.

Kennedy himself will generously donate 75 hours of his time for talks with the center. Stephen Knott, associate professor at the Miller Center, told the Globe that Kennedy will not control who is interviewed or what questions are asked.

"This is very unusual," historian Michael R. Beschloss told the senator's hometown newspaper. "Even an important senator or president will write a memoir or do some interviews with a ghost writer, and that is basically it," he explained.

Knott promised that the project would not avoid the more unpleasant aspects of Kennedy's life and career. While the questions have not been written yet, historians said they expect that the center would address the Chappaquiddick episode and other nonpolicy-related matters.

"The way we've approached it is that nothing is off-limits," Knott said. "The study is going to cover the whole of his life, including his pre-Senate years and up to the present," Knott told the Globe, which noted that despite the many books, articles and movies that deal with the Kennedy family, Teddy's interviews will probably reveal new information or anecdotes.

And while Knott said Kennedy will have no control over the final product, his funding and heavy involvement in the project gives him an unusual opportunity to create a lasting monument to himself.

[Rastus]

First picture of the Ted Kennedy Monument.

[fish hawk]

They are already trying to make a memorial to the fat wind bag. That would be hundreds of off-shore wind-mills.

[John Lenin]

Teddy Kennedy is the poster boy for term limits.

[Bon mots]

[devolve]

ORAL HISTORY 101



WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?

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[punster]

I thought about the Teddy Kennedy Memorial Brewery/Distillery.


The lobby should feature a 1968 or 1969 Oldsmobile with the appropriate hazardous materials placards for ethyl alcohol, aka ethanol.

[Happy2BMe]

LOL !

Did you mean

BLOB?

[solitas]

My _dog_ leaves little 'monuments' every day that look better then _this_ pile of [the same].

[TheGrimReaper]

[Petronski]

Absolutely brutally perfect. I salute you.

[ZOTnot]

He passed by me in the D.C. Reagan Airport a few years ago. I was SHOCKED to see how bad his facial skin looked. Pocked, red, blotched. He didn't have the weight that he has now, but he was well on the way. I will never forget it. He wasn't but 10 feet from me.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Happy2BMe]

Did he have gas?

[TheForceOfOne]

Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more.
Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more.
Woo! Ted, oh Ted, don't treat me so mean,
You're the meanest old man that I've ever seen.
I guess if you said so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)
Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more.
Now Teddy, listen Teddy, don't-a treat me this-a way
For I'll be back in 08 to vote the same way.
Don't care if you do don't understand.
you ain't got half a brain and you ain't no man.
Well, I guess if you say so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)
Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Ted and don't you come back no more.
Don't you come back no more.....

[KoRn]

I see a resemblance.

[ntnychik]

Re picture of the swimmer hoisting a sail:
Oh. My. God.

[NewLand]

What is an oral history? Something that can be drunk? [MINI - BWAA HAAA HAAA]

[beyond the sea]

The project is unique in that it will be the first ever oral history of a sitting U.S. senator.

"oral history" -- maybe Clinton could pitch in a little casholla.

[beyond the sea]

Kennedy himself will generously donate 75 hours of his time for talks with the center.

Hope he's not too sloshed for the talks.

[beyond the sea]

The project will be carried out by the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, which has created oral histories of President Jimmy Carter and is doing others on presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

I can see the "oral history" on Clinton.