Yes, the dog is named Splash, and recently Ted K read the book to children at a book signing or library or something. Howie Carr plays a cut of it--and you actually hear the following words from Ted:
"she could stay in the water for hours and hours..."
(you mean Mary Jo???)
Howie Carr is hoping to do a second book (first is The Brothers Bulger) and recently went to NYC to discuss it with his publisher. He said on air they were thinking of having him do one about the priest-sex abuse scandal but he told them one about the Kennedy family (just the scandals, and there are many) might be a bigger seller.
If that does come to pass, maybe it will be titled after his nickname for them:
The Kennedy Crime Family
oops, actually it was at Fenway Park. The following is right from tedkennedy.com (I believe the second figure on the left in this pic is Ruf Ruffman, a PBS cartoon character) :
"It was a dog day at Fenway Park as Senator Edward Kennedy and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, visited the old ballyard Wednesday for a school reading event.
The senator read a portion of his new children’s book, “My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington D.C.,” to a group of Boston-area school children.
The picture book takes readers through a day in the life of the senator, told from the perspective of Splash.
Joining Kennedy was Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler, who is recuperating from a torn Achilles tendon. Kapler swapped his baseball bat for a tennis racket and hit tennis balls toward the “Green Monster” for Splash to fetch.”