Posted on 03/08/2009 7:17:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BOSTON (CBS) ―
As part of Sen. Ted Kennedy's birthday celebration in Washington, the 77-year-old was presented with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Kennedy was presented with the award during a star-studded event at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Sunday night.
"Every year, Sen. Edward Kennedy is nominated for his statesmanship and leadership on the most pressing issues facing out nation," said Caroline Kennedy, president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. "His passionate advocacy on behalf of civil rights, human rights, voting rights, economic, social and environmental justice – and his long battle to achieve quality affordable health care for all Americans – are each deserving of an award."
Kennedy has not been eligible for the award while he served on the Profile in Courage Award selection committee, but this year, Kennedy was given the honor that celebrates his brother's legacy.
Sunday's event also featured a special guest; Pres. Barack Obama. The President led a Kennedy Center crowd in a performance of "Happy Birthday", capping the tribute to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Kennedy is the third senator from Massachusetts to get the Profiles in Courage Award.
The award is named after Pres. Kennedy's 1957 Pulitzer-Prize winning book, "Profiles in Courage," which tells the stories of eight U.S. senators who risked their careers by taking principled stands for unpopular positions.
The JFK Library Foundation created the Profiles in Courage Award in 1989 to honor Kennedy's commitment and contribution to public service.
Current winners of the award include UN Secretary Gen. Kofi Annan, Senators Russ Feingold and John McCain and the first responders to the devastation of September 11.
For his swimming prowess, no doubt.
Is this for saving the life of Mary Jo Ko....?
No, wait, that was another deal.
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For pulling Mary Jo Kopechnie out of the car? For passing his own college Spanish exams? For dissuading his nephew from sexual assault?
Mary Jo Kopechne should have gotten a profiles in courage when teddy left her to drown in his car.
I’m going to wait to read the article..the title of it says enough...
I’m having a vision of a fat overweight fish swimming for air while the fish known as non-wife struggles to break the glass entrapment in search for air itself...
<-—waiting for the A&E special...”Profile in Courage...Life and Times of Kennedy, The Swimmer...”
Guess I should read before I post.
Oh well, at least we’re thinking alike.
I’m going to wait to read the article..the title of it says enough...
I’m having a vision of a fat overweight fish swimming for air while the fish known as non-wife struggles to break the glass entrapment in search for air itself...
<-—waiting for the A&E special...”Profile in Courage...Life and Times of Kennedy, The Swimmer...”
His brother saves his crew by swimming. POS kills a girl by not swimming. I have total contempt for POS.
Hurry,hurry with them awards before the Swimmer croaks. Nobel, you meatball eaters?
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Come on now, don’t be churlish!!
Teddy boy is real hero!
You must understand how much guts (and we all can see what a pile he has) it takes to dress a naked dead girl in the front seat of a Lincoln under 18 feet of saltwater!
Come on now, don’t be churlish!!
Teddy boy is real hero!
You must understand how much guts (and we all can see what a pile he has) it takes to dress a naked dead girl in the front seat of a Lincoln under 18 feet of saltwater!
It will be a fine day when the worms get to enjoy his pickled carcass.
Ha, ha, I love that one!
I just hope Teddy hangs on until July 18... a very important day in his history of courageous acts, no?
...One could only wonder if Mary Jo would agree?
Sorry, folks, but I cannot wish Kennedy anything except a swift and painless "homegoing" (if God will have him).
It is the old saying again...God may forgive him, but I won't. He was a lying, cowardly, reprobate in the '60's and has not changed to this day.
Ted Kennedy, driving drunk, drove his car off a bridge and into the water. He abandoned the young girl in that car, leaving her to drown, and saved himself.
Courage?
Being able to hold his breath the longest.
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