Ted Kennedy - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Jon Favreau

...was to work for Paul Wellstone and then Ted Kennedy . Neither of those worked out, becaus...
...is sort of the go-to move. And then Ted Kennedy dies, of course. And I'm sitting wit...
...in his office, and he gets a call from Ted Kennedy 's office and it's Vicky Kennedy. An...
...[Edward “Ted”] Kennedy staffer; and the Ted Kennedy on the Senate floor pounding the podiu...

Lee Bollinger

...people support you. So, at that moment, Ted Kennedy and—I'm forgetting the—who was th...

Elizabeth Fowler

...with the Heritage Foundation and Ted Kennedy , Senator Kennedy, and holding hands...

Cody Keenan

...for, I ended up taking an internship in Ted Kennedy 's Senate office. It was an unpai...
...somebody to help. In this case, it was Ted Kennedy . And I'm sitting there reading thes...
...tells you what office it is, and I saw Ted Kennedy . I was like, “Oh, great. I know wh...
...about it. One of the first lessons that Ted Kennedy ever learned when he took office in '6...
...back. So one of the joys of being in Ted Kennedy 's office is, there wasn't an issu...

...Hatch in Utah would campaign against Ted Kennedy because it wins you conservative votes...
...votes; because all conservatives hate Ted Kennedy . But then the two of them passed th...
...I'm from Massachusetts, so I love Ted Kennedy . I'm sure you can do it.” It's funny...
...was when he actually sat down with Ted Kennedy in Ted Kennedy's office and told hi...
...actually sat down with Ted Kennedy in Ted Kennedy 's office and told him he's thinkin...
...told him he's thinking about it, and Ted Kennedy had done it himself and he'd been ther...
...or '15 was the grand opening of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate...
...there, and as somebody who worked for Ted Kennedy , I made it this love letter to no...
...of times. I sat on that couch when Ted Kennedy told me to run for president.” And ...
...was just as electrifying as it was with Ted Kennedy . As the campaign goes on, you get t...
...signed the top of that speech too, like Ted Kennedy did. I think it was something simila...
...were just like the ones I'd read in Ted Kennedy 's office, just people wanting him t...
...got a hell of a lot more letters than Ted Kennedy did every day. So we'd call and say...
...rip-roaring ones. There was a classic Ted Kennedy line. One of his all-time best floo...
...in Milwaukee and, “As our good buddy Ted Kennedy used to say, ‘What is it about workin...
...“Go find me some great stories about Ted Kennedy .” We didn't have to do that, because ...
...but he also wrote this letter to Ted Kennedy . I think it was because Trent Lott'...
...the votes for it. So what someone like Ted Kennedy would do was go talk to Orrin Hatch...
...where the big ending was all about Ted Kennedy and the character of our country, and ...
...shoring up along the way. But yeah, Ted Kennedy to the rescue once again. That was th...
...from Iowa who had worked with Ted Kennedy on successful healthcare stuff in th...
...funks, we would actually send around a Ted Kennedy speech to each other on YouTube. ...
...2005, but if you just search for “ Ted Kennedy minimum wage,” he gives this speec...
...does the greed stop?” And here was Ted Kennedy from beyond the grave firing us up al...

Jim Messina

...burning. This is right before we lost Ted Kennedy 's senate seat, and we had to go here...
...weeks to come, Scott Brown would win Ted Kennedy 's Senate seat in Massachusetts i...
...we lost the sixtieth seat, when we lost Ted Kennedy 's seat. It allowed us to say, “Okay...
...question, Dov, another place where Ted Kennedy would've been helpful. In what way? ...

Dan Tarullo

...As you know, I eventually worked for Senator Ted Kennedy . That Kennedy line I think was a dra...
...resonated because of my experience with Ted Kennedy . Had that been your mindset when yo...
...the kitchen, the phone rang, and it was Edward M. Kennedy on the phone calling to congratulate...
...that reminded me—as different men as Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama were and are, a...
...thing that was lucky, I had worked for Edward M. Kennedy , and I had been in the White House i...

Lilly Ledbetter

...But going into people's offices like Ted Kennedy , and President Obama, when he was ...
...He happened to get in an office next to Ted Kennedy , or near him. He went to every one o...
...up, me and the politicians, and me and Ted Kennedy , and me and Barack, me and Michelle...

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