Posted on 02/03/2010 9:53:58 PM PST by Libloather
Brown getting Kennedy's seat, but not his desk
By GLEN JOHNSON, AP Political Writer
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 18:51 PST
BOSTON, (AP) - Republican Scott Brown may be taking over Democrat Edward Kennedy's Senate seat, but not his desk.
An aide says Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is claiming the mahogany desk on the Senate floor used by Kennedy for nearly 47 years. Until now, Kerry has been seated at the desk once used by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the late senator's assassinated brother.
Kennedy was partial to his own desk No. 83 because it had once been used by President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy even left it in the back row of the chamber — when his seniority would have allowed him to move it down front — because that was where his brother sat.
Following Senate tradition since about 1900, all senators inscribe their name on their desk's drawer.
Brown will be sworn in Thursday. Kennedy died in August of brain cancer.
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Bet Brown doesn’t give a whit about Kennedy’s desk..He just wants to get to work.
Fine. Give it to Horseface. Out with the old, in with the new. It must have wreaked of booze anyways.
Brown would not want the “Swimmer’s” desk!
I wouldn’t want that desk. It’s seen years of hard use propping up Kennedy.
assassinated , brain cancer, its cursed anyway.
... but I hope Kerry enjoys it.
Kennedy left it in the back row because he often needed to get to the restroom quickly.
Years from now, soon I hope, memories of that desk will be “seared, seared into his memory.”
Honestly, I have a hard time telling which is pettier, him claiming the desk or it being reported in the media.
Can he get a new one? He could donate Kerry’s old one to a Vietnamese museum.
Oh for....Kerry. Understand this. Yu will never be JFK. Not if you use his initials and not by sitting in his old desk. This is just sad.
So Kerry gets the desk - who gets the roomful of chivas ?
Yeah, but Kerry does care. That is what is pathetic. I can only imagine he spent decades coveting that desk. The story didn’t make a note of anyone drawing straws over it so I doubt they all threw down on the Senate floor in a brawl for it and this guy wound up the winner.
Scott knows its the People's Desk.
Thanks for the link to that interesting site, C210N!
I’m glad that John Kerry gets to move up from Robert Kennedy’s desk to Teddy and John Kennedy’s desk. He must be thrilled to have reached the final stage of Camelot.
Thanks for the ping!
So if Kerry loses his senate seat, what will happen to that desk?
I'll bet that guys spends days dreaming, "Only one of 'em got to be President. I may yet, myself. But I'm the last to use their desks. I have their heirlooms. I'm the last dog to mark their posts!"
“Kennedy died in August...”
Kennedy died. Kennedy is dead. Kennedy dead. Kennedy, Ted, Dead. Dead Ted Kennedy. Dead. Dead. Dead. MMMmmmm. Feels so good to just roll it around your mouth. Kennedy. Dead. No longer alive. No longer in the Senate. No longer in America. No longer on earth. MMMmmm. MMMmmm. MMMmmm.
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