The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy

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In 1971 Richard Burke, a freshman at Georgetown University, volunteered his services to the offices of his political idol, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Through ability, hard work, and dedication, Burke rose in the next four years to become one of the Senator's closest staff members. In 1977 he was made Kennedy's personal assistant; after his appointment in 1978 as administrative assistant - the youngest in the Senate - he came to know Edward M. Kennedy perhaps more intimately than anyone outside the closed circle of the Senator's family. He was often the last to see the Senator at night and the first to see him in the morning. This book is the account of what Richard Burke witnessed and experienced during his decade at the Senator's right hand. It is neither a full biography nor an examination of Kennedy's long career in government. Rather, it is the history of a young man who shared the Senator's professional and personal lives during a time marked by exhilarating public achievements and tragic secret misconduct. His story is not only the chronicle of a shattered idol, but of Richard Burke's own fall from grace, and eventual recovery. Burke does not shrink from confronting his own faults, and he agrees with the Senator: It is time for him to confront his.

Edward Kennedy; The Late Senator from Massachusetts

Edward Kennedy; The Late Senator from Massachusetts Review

EDWARD M. KENNEDY was the third longest serving Member
of the U.S. Senate in American history. Voters of Massachusetts
elected him to the Senate nine times—a record
matched by only one other Senator. The scholar Thomas
Mann said his time in the Senate was ‘‘an amazing and endurable
presence. You want to go back to the 19th century
to find parallels, but you won’t find parallels.’’ President
Obama has described his breathtaking span of accomplishment:
‘‘For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation
to advance the civil rights, health, and economic well-
being of the American people bore his name and resulted
from his efforts.’’

This is a Memorial Tribute to him.