Posted on 11/26/2009 5:14:33 AM PST by Zakeet
The widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy told Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast Wednesday that even as her husband knew he was dying of brain cancer he had been "in training" to make sure he had enough strength to attend President Barack Obama's inauguration.
In the most extensive interview since her husband's death in August, Vicki Kennedy said she wouldn't try to run for her husband's former U.S. Senate seat and described how he battled brain cancer — but she would not talk about the last thing he said to her before dying.
"I think I'll just keep that one to myself," she told Winfrey on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
During the hour-long interview was taped Friday, Kennedy was sometimes joined on stage by her two grown children as well as Ted Kennedy Jr. She described her husband's seizure in May 2008, which led to his diagnosis of the brain cancer that ended his life at the age of 77.
"We went from thinking he had lost his life, to thinking that he'd had a stroke, to thinking that he wouldn't speak to thinking that he was OK, to then finding out that he might have a brain tumor all in the span of about three hours," she said.
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There were also scenes from Kennedy's funeral service — including perhaps the most poignant moment during which in his eulogy of his father, Ted Kennedy Jr. told of having his leg amputated when he was 12 and how his father picked him up after he fell on a hill and told him that together they would "climb that hill together, if it takes us all day."
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Any you Freepers care to guess what Ed-Lard-O's last words were?
I turned my hospital gown around.
All in all, I’d rather be at Red Lobster...
Dead Ted’s last words were, “I’ll miss having threesomes with Chris Dodd in our favorite DC restaurant.”
I hope Dead Ted is burning in hell right now.
I wonder if Oprah asked her, “Did Ted give you herpes too?”
Did she ask what Mary Jo’s last words were?
Thanks Teddy for f’ing up this country with your faux populist ideas on immigration, health care and so forth. I hope you are paying for your many sins.
"Do me."...?
"I left MaryJo to drown while I sobered up"...?
"I knew Rush Limbaugh was right all along"...?
"I see the souls of all the aborted children I helped kill."...?
"Why is this escalator headed DOWN?" ...?
Cheers!
Well, Ted has been clean and sober for two months now and if there is a God Mary Jo has taken a short leave from heaven and has about half of an Oldsmobile up Ted’s @$$.....
A true sorry bastard, and retarded.
I don’t care to venture what his last words were, but I hope they were his confession and repentance for his sins.
I hope the Lord has granted him mercy and salvation. I am not the Lord, so therefore, I would not be able to do so.
I’d leave that to God. It’s enough to know he’s just gone.
Only a Dem could by the idea that Ted Kennedy could be a champion for the Poor and Women.
Pray for America’s Freedom
Amen...
Oh yeah ... he was a champion for the Poor Women who fell into his slimy hands.
And a good reason to go make some popcorn!
"Where's my drink?"
If the fat SOB was still capable of being lucid, I would think his last words were, “Yeowww! The gates of hell are opening.”
One more thing to be thankful for today.
Ted is still dead.
"Wanna see my one-eared elephant?"
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