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Saying Goodbye to Ted Kennedy

Aired August 27, 2009 - 15:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: You can see some of the family members in tears, or they're welling up as that watch that moment with us.

That hearse now on its way to Boston, where Senator Kennedy will lie in repose starting tonight. But, as we watch this American icon in death, I want to stop right now. I want to stop and I want to show you this man in life, in fact, filled with life.

You are about to see Ted Kennedy from just a couple of years ago, mind you. This is 2007. And he is fighting for the little guy. He is blasting rich guys, even though he is one of them. He says, they are worrying more about themselves than the American worker. Listen to this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: What is the price, we ask the other side? What is the price that you want from these working men and women? What cost? How much more do we have to give to the private sector and to business? How many billion?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: He is talking about getting the minimum wage up. The motorcade, by the way, is now making its way right toward the JFK Library and Museum in Boston.

Mary Snow is there. And she will be following this throughout the course of the evening.

Mary, what are we learning?

MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rick, it is a 70-mile route. And right now at the JFK Library, it has been closed to the public and it will reopen at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time.

The motorcade, this will be the last destination along that route. And Senator Kennedy's body will lie in repose. It will be taken into a room called the Smith Center. The library says there are about 600 -- it can fit about 600 people.

Members of the public will be allowed to go in and pay their last respects. There will be a military honor guard. And also members of the family, friends and staff members will also be keeping vigil alongside the closed casket.

Members of the public, this will be their time to say goodbye. And people have been lining up, some for hours, to pay their last respects. And they consider themselves, as you just mentioned, the so-called little guy, the people of Massachusetts, who say that they can't really imagine a future without Senator Kennedy. He spent 47 years in the Senate and has really become such a big part of their lives -- Rick.

SANCHEZ: Thanks so much, Mary.

There's a couple of things that we're going to be doing for you throughout this hour. We have got Chad Myers on stand by. Here's what going on.

We want to share with you as many pictures as we can possibly get live of the actual motorcade. Unfortunately, there will be parts of this motorcade that will have -- that will be restricted. In other words, we won't be able to see the pictures of the actual motorcade, because they are going to be flying through a restricted fly zone. In other words, helicopters won't be able to get the shots.

Other areas where they can get over a bypass and get on the side and have a television camera there, then we will be able to cut in and be able to actually show you not only the motorcade, but the reaction from so many Americans who want to say their last farewell to this senator who led the nation for 45 years.

There's a couple other people I want to introduce you to now joining us now to take us -- help get us through this hour are CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, also PoliticsDaily.com columnist Patricia Murphy.

My thanks to both of you for being with us.

Hey, David, that speech that I just played, it was just a little part of the speech. We're going to be playing more in just a little bit. It was before -- and this is interesting. Here is this guy fighting for minimum wage for the average American worker. This is before the bottom fell out of the economy, by the way. And that's important to know.

When we now know that a lot of the suits, a lot of the people he was scolding there, were making a lot of money, and the little guys, the rest of us, ended up paying for it. Once again, this is a Ted Kennedy with legislation where he was being kind of prescient, wasn't he?

DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, he was -- he became, just as his brother Bobby had become -- and he picked up that banner after Bobby was assassinated -- he became the voice of fashion for people who were down and out, people who were on the margins, people who were poor, and didn't have an equal opportunity and an equal shot in life.

And that's why he was so beloved by that base. But he did take on his own class. He took on his own class.

Here in Hyannis Port, the motorcade has just left. And it is a very wonderful neighborhood, a lot of friendliness here. But these are also very expensive homes. You don't have a sea view out here for less than $3 million or $4 million. And they have got several homes here.

So, he came from a class with money. And his father, obviously, made a lot of money. But I think what endeared him to so many Americans was that he went against type and he did become a strong champion, for example, of minimum wage, of national health insurance, of education reform, No Child Left Behind, and many others.

SANCHEZ: As a matter of fact, David, I am going to go through a list here. Listen to this list.

And, Murph, I want to bring you into this conversation, because I think this is interesting. This is a list of the people who have been helped by this man's legislation, stuff he passed, endorsed, supported.

If you receive a pension or you earn minimum wage, if you send your children to a public school or teach in a public school, if you lost your job, but you have kept health insurance, if you took leave from work to care for a family member, if you have had cancer, if you have had a disabled child, if you are a female college athlete, if you are an immigrant from elsewhere than Europe in the past 45 years, if you are an African-American in the South who has voted in the past 45 years, or if you're a soldier who has benefited from body armor or armed vehicles, as you watch this coverage today, you can say thank you to Ted Kennedy.

Murph, that's significant, isn't it?

PATRICIA MURPHY, POLITICSDAILY.COM: It is.

His -- the breadth of his experience and the breadth of his impact on people, it is almost impossible to overstate it. I have been talking to leaders of progressive organizations since the senator died. And they have said they really don't know who to turn to now.

Ted Kennedy was always their first choice of somebody to lead the charge. And so even here in Washington, you just look at the impact he has had here on the city. Nobody on Capitol Hill has ever worked here without Ted Kennedy being a member of the Senate. He was there for 47 years. Nobody has ever experienced a time without him here.

And you mentioned all of those groups. If you are in a wheelchair, he had everything to do with the Americans With Disabilities Acts. And he was not done with his work. He certainly was trying to get D.C. voting rights. He was trying to get gays in the military, that ban lifted. So, he was still in the middle of a lot of important work. And that's why his voice is particularly missed right now.

SANCHEZ: And it's amazing. When you think of something like this, we often think of presidents. And oftentimes we don't have enough of a sense of our history. Someone like yourself or David obviously do. But when you look back on this man's career over 45 years, the 10 presidents that he worked with, there are some amazing accomplishments. Yes, there are some low moments as well. But these are particularly important.

I am going to show you, by the way, some of the -- we have gathered some tape that I can't wait to get both of your reaction on, him giving his brother's eulogy, him giving the rest of that speech moments ago, him when his brothers died. We have all of this, some of these rare moments that haven't been seen before. They are in black and white. They're grainy, but we're going to look at them together.

Stay with us. We are going to be taking you through this, taking you through the live pictures as we remember Ted Kennedy. Stay with.

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SANCHEZ: Ted Kennedy's motorcade is right there. There is the hearse with his body. Interestingly enough, it's going to be going through highways and byways, some of them, in fact, in at least in a couple of cases, named after the matriarch of his family, his mother, Rose.

Check in with Chad Myers real quick.

Chad, can you give us who maybe aren't so familiar with the geography of Boston where he is now, since he started in Hyannis Port, right? He is going to end up in Boston proper.

(CROSSTALK)

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Right, and ran through Barnstable, and is now I believe up on the Pilgrim Highway on up near Plymouth, near Plymouth Bay, so about halfway to Boston now, making obviously very good here time off the highway, then will be into Boston.

And then it gets very, very complicated. And we make U-turns and lefts and rights, literally going over every place that's important in his life. And we will be following that as it goes, Rick.

SANCHEZ: Yes. I understand he is going to go to his -- the church where his mother was buried. He's going to go by Faneuil Hall, where the mayor is going to ring the bell, and then he's going to end up at the namesake museum and library for his brother, JFK, where he will lie in repose.

That's -- those are pretty much the headlines of this trip as we take you through it. There is something else. As we watch this -- and we will keep this up for you, by the way, but there is something else I want to share with you now. You know, we have spent the last couple of days going through videos and going through moments trying to find the things that speak of this man's life.

There was nothing in the world that Joe Kennedy -- that would be his dad, as you remember, Joseph Kennedy -- wanted more than to have accomplished, smart, famous sons. There were four of these sons, as you probably know. There was Joseph, right? There was John. They called him Jack. There was Bobby, and then there was Teddy.

Now, historians say that Joseph was destined to be the president. But he died in combat during World War II. That left Jack, who did become president, until he was assassinated in 1963. So, then it was up to Bobby, who was a hair's breadth, most would say, from the presidency, until he was assassinated five years later.

By now, the family patriarch was too weak to take the news about all his sons' death. So, when finally Bobby died, they turned off the TV, unplugged it, so he wouldn't be able to see it, because they thought it would just destroy him. Eventually, it did.

I want you to hear now this. This is from the Kennedy matriarch. This is Rose Kennedy that you are about to hear. Now, she is talking about how much Teddy Kennedy would do anything at all to impress his three big brothers.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROSE KENNEDY, MOTHER OF TED KENNEDY: I can remember him -- I can remember his oldest brother, Joe, teaching him and encouraging him to dive from a big cliff down at Eaton (ph) Rock. I was there quite by accident that afternoon.

And my heart really beat when I saw this little youngster at the top of a rock and his brother below in the water saying, "Dive, Teddy." And, of course, Teddy dove, because he knew Joe was there to save him if he sank.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: That's the thing about it. It sounds like -- when you hear the Kennedys' family stories, they sound like any American story.

We are going to be bringing in Murph and David into that conversation in just a little bit. Let's try and get a break in right now and then we will continue to take you along this motorcade. It is getting into Boston now. And, as it does, we will be able to really visualize it for you as best we can.

We are also going to be showing you videos you have never seen before. Have you heard what is considered by most one of the greatest speeches or eulogies ever given? That's Teddy Kennedy when his brother Bobby died, very famous speech. We have also found video to put underneath it that you have likely never seen. It was when body was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. We have got both.

Stay with us. We will be right back.

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.

You are watching now live coverage of Senator Ted Kennedy. That's his motorcade. That's the hearse that is now carrying his casket. It is heading we understand first to stop maybe briefly -- we will hopefully be able to watch this -- at the cemetery or at the church where his mother was buried and where she attended, by the way.

Also, it will go on then to Faneuil Hall and then eventually to the JFK Library and Museum. And we're going to keep that picture up for as long as you can see it.

David, let me bring you back into this conversation.

It's interesting. As I watched Rose Kennedy, I thought to myself, so many Americans consider the Kennedys regal, some go as far as to say almost royal. And yet there was a part of the Kennedy family that was so everyman. Those pictures of them playing football in the front yard and getting into trouble and the stories of Joseph talking to his sons and the mother's real matriarchal dominance over the boys and the girls, this was not regal. This is just an American family.

GERGEN: It is. And it's an extraordinary American family of course.

But Joe Kennedy, Rose Kennedy, the patriarch, matriarch, raised their kids with three principles. They always said -- at the family dinner table, they would sort of really bear down on them, family, faith, and country. And family always came first.

So, if you talk to the neighbors here -- I was just talking to a fellow who grew up here on this street. And he remembers John Kennedy flying in by helicopter. And all the kids would be pulling little carts to go up to the helicopter and greet them. And he would go off and play, and they would start a football game or something.

They were very competitive. They called themselves the warriors. Teddy was the happy warrior. But they loved these family games. And one of the reasons -- I think one of the things that's inspiring about Teddy Kennedy is that he was the one who was the chubby little fellow who was never expected to do well.

(CROSSTALK)

SANCHEZ: We just had a picture there. I'm just going to interrupt you for a moment. If we can go back to that, we just had a picture going -- let's go back one more. Look at this picture. It almost looked like his brothers are so handsome and he is the pudgy- faced one on the right.

GERGEN: Yes.

(LAUGHTER)

GERGEN: Yes. Well, one of his sisters called Teddy biscuits and muffins. That was his nickname.

(LAUGHTER) GERGEN: But what happened was, when his brothers all died tragically and died young and he inherited the legacy, he inherited the Camelot flame, that's when he really bore down on life and he turned himself into something that he wasn't.

And in part it was because he wanted to live up to the standards set by his brothers, by his sisters, older sisters, and by his parents. And it was part -- in part, Rick, another thing that's so important to so many Americans, he had a pretty wayward life for a good numbers of years. He flunked out of college. They threw him out for cheating. He went in the Army, came back, did well on the football team.

But he was not expected to do much. He wasn't a very great student. And he was a roustabout. He loved to drink. He loved to carouse. And of course he got himself in a lot of trouble on that bridge in Chappaquiddick in 1969.

(CROSSTALK)

SANCHEZ: Not to mention Palm Beach.

GERGEN: Absolutely. That would have ruined most people.

But it was -- his biographies argue that it was because of his failings, because he knew he was so intensely human, that he tried so hard to become the hardest-working person in the Senate, the most productive person in the Senate, the person who was getting things done, not just talking.

And that, I think, became his trademark. And, so, for me, there is a story of redemption here, a man who had made a lot of mistakes early in life, but learned from his mistakes and lifted himself up. And that is part of the American dream too, you know, to lift yourself up.

SANCHEZ: Well, let's talk about part of that redemption and that legislative record that he leaves behind.

Senator Kennedy was a wealthy man. He came from a wealthy family. But, as a descendant of Irish immigrants, he also understood that the way Hispanic immigrants are in large measure treated today is how his grandfather was once treated.

Think about this. There were signs across the Northeast that read, no Irish need apply, no Irish need apply. That's discrimination. Maybe that's why he spent a lifetime fighting for the little guy, fighting for immigrants, fighting for the poor, fighting for American workers.

I want to show you something now. The bulk of one of his most passionate speeches, it's really more of a scolding than a speech. This is 2007. He is trying to get his colleagues to pass an increased minimum wage for Americans. Let's watch this together.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KENNEDY: Two hundred and forty billion in tax breaks for corporations, $36 billion in tax breaks for small businesses, increase in productivity, 42 percent over the last 10 years. But do you think there is any increase in the minimum wage? No.

What is the price, we ask the other side? What is the price that you want from these working men and women? What cost? How much more do we have to give to the private sector and to business? How many billion dollars more are you asking, are you requiring?

When does the greed stop, we ask the other side? That's the question. And that's the issue, Mr. President. Make no mistake about it. They have on the Republican side 70 more amendments -- 74 -- 70 more amendments.

We have none. We are prepared to vote now. Seventy more amendments. Oh, yes. Oh, we want an increase in the minimum wage, we want this, we want that, but silence over there, or let's have some other kinds of amendments that have virtually nothing to do with this.

Do you have such disdain for hardworking Americans that you want to pile all your amendments on this? Why don't you just hold your amendments until other pieces of legislation? Why this volume of amendments on just the issue to try and raise the minimum wage? What is it about it that drives you Republicans crazy? What is it? Something. Something.

So, you going to require us to have a cloture vote next week? I can see it already. Amendments have already been filed that are going to be related in case we do get cloture to delay this even further.

What is the price that the workers have to pay to get it increased? What is it about working men and women that you find so offensive that you won't permit even a vote, denying the Senate of the United States the opportunity to express ourselves?

We don't want to hear anymore from that side for the rest of this session about permitting and not permitting votes in here, when you are denying it on the most simple concept, an increase in the minimum wage.

We don't want to hear anymore about that. This is filibuster by delay and amendments. I have been around here long enough to know it when I see it and smell it. And that's what it looks like. That's what it is. Make no mistake about it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: David Gergen and Patricia Murphy both have followed this, followed that particularly controversy, just watched that speech. And I know they are both dying to explain to us how they are affected as they watch that man back in 2007 during that speech. We are going to go to them in just a little bit.

We are going to try and sneak a commercial in here. Again, what we are doing for you during this hour and probably through the next couple of hours is let you see for yourself this motorcade, this hearse carrying the body of former Senator Ted Kennedy heading toward Boston, toward his mother's final resting place, and toward his brother's museum and library as well.

All of this as it happens, you will see it on CNN. Stay with us. I'm Rick Sanchez. We will be right back.

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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: We got a lot of twitter responses on that speech that just came in a little while ago. This is on our twitter page over here, "Kennedy's greatest achievement, he fought the bigotry, the hypocrisy, the greed that neocons endeavor to sow into legislation." Obviously is a partisan position.

But here's another one. Go back to that if you possibly can. Here is Mike Bates who watches us often and comes from a conservative standpoint -- I like Mike Bates. "Why don't you provide the numbers of people who lost their jobs after Kennedy's minimum wage demands were met?"

There are two sides of this argument, interestingly enough.

I want to bring David Gergen back into this conversation, though, because whether you were against what he was arguing, whether you were Republican or whether you were a Democrat, you couldn't help but hear that speech that I just shared with the audience moments ago and be moved by a man who was damn well passionate about what he was trying to get across, David.

DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Absolutely. He was called -- John McCain called him the last lion. In that speech, you heard the roar of the last lion. It was the passion and the compassion that he had for others, especially at the lower end of the spectrum that he fought for all his life. Even in unpopular times.

We went through a very conservative era when Ronald Reagan was elected, and Teddy Kennedy's positions were not as popular as they once were. But he still championed them. He still -- and he made headway, by the way. He often would cut deals.

And he and Reagan actually got along together very well. Nancy Reagan was on Larry King last night recalling how fond both she and Ronnie were about Teddy. And they spent time together and helped raised money for the library and that sort of thing. And they worked together.

And you found even with George W. Bush that Teddy was working across the aisle on No Child Left Behind.

But Rick, you were going through many of his many accomplishments. One that really hit me today in the "Los Angeles Times," I didn't know this, it is said that through his legislation for seniors, no less than six billion meals were provided to seniors because of Teddy Kennedy.

SANCHEZ: Wow, that's a number.

GERGEN: Isn't that unbelievable.

SANCHEZ: You know, as you read this stuff now and you go back, you forget. You know why? Because guys like you and I, David, we covered the news from day to day. And sometimes it's cyclical. It's a 24-hour cycle, and we forget the stuff that's come before.

And it is moments like this when you get to be a little more introspective and actually see the life of a person like this. And maybe we should do this more often.

GERGEN: I agree.

And Rick, something else that struck me, too. We often talk about the young and up and coming and people that are going to make it, 35 years old. They really break through. They have the big achievement.

And what you see in Teddy Kennedy's life is the result of more than 40 years at the task, the long, hard work of more than 40 years, putting his name on over 500 pieces of legislation, working on more than 2,500 bills.

There is something to be said about people who sort of work at the task over a full lifetime. And the accomplishments that come not just in a flash but that long, arduous work that comes from real dedication.

Well said, David Gergen. Thanks to you.

GERGEN: Thank you.

SANCHEZ: Let's go back to Chad real quick just to see if we can get a sense of what's going on with the motorcade itself. Look at the people who are lining the route who are stopped just to watch the senator go by.

It is interesting. And I guess, Chad, he is going to his mother's church, where we understand there might be a brief stop, not positive. We'll watch it if it happens. Then he is going on to Faneuil Hall and then he's going on to JFK library and museum.

CHAD MYERS, METEOROLOGIST: And driving over the Rose Kennedy garden there in downtown Boston, the open, the green space there.

Starting down here, Hyannis Port, traveling up Pilgrim's Highway, past Plymouth. And we'll go ahead and put it into motion. I can set it here for you, Rick, because we are kind of moving on up now quite quickly.

There would be Plymouth, there would be Plymouth bay. Now, we are flying right very close to the river. This is going to be Hanover Mall just to the north of here.

Right here at the truck stop, there must have been 300 cars pulled over at the truck stop, everybody out of their car, lining the road by the truck spot. There you go, the Hanover Mall, and still heading to the north.

So far, I am tracking you here, about 20 more miles to downtown Boston.

SANCHEZ: Wow. I want to ask you in a little bit, because now I know there is Danny boy, as you and I talked about it earlier, the hurricane off the coast of Hatteras.

Danny boy is probably not going to hit the United States as a full-fledged hurricane. But it still might have an impact on some of the weekend's activities.

Now, Saturday morning, there is going to be a ceremony for Ted Kennedy that might possibly be affected. I have got to get a break in now, but when you come back, you can let us know how or when it is going to be affected.

Also, we have Patricia Murphy standing by. She is going to -- I want Patricia to watch something with us coming up in just a little bit. This is going to be the speech that Ted Kennedy gave, the speech that he gave when his brother, Bobby died. It is considered by some one of the most significant speeches of his life, perhaps one of the greatest speeches ever given, certainly on the list.

We will let you share in that as well. Stay with us. We're going to be right back.

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. And there, once again, the motorcade and hearse carrying the body of Senator Ted Kennedy. I am Rick Sanchez here in the "CNN Newsroom" and the world headquarters of CNN in Atlanta.

We are going to be taking you through this so you can see it for yourself, experience it from home. As you can see, a lot of folks in Massachusetts are going to be along that motorcade route.

Let me give you some information I've just gotten. The John F. Kennedy library and museum is now saying that -- look at that. Look at the people ling the streets there in some of these shots. It switches from time to time.

If we have got a shot of the library, we will show it again. We just learned from the library that they are now expecting that the motorcade is not going to arrive until 5:00 p.m. It was originally scheduled for 4:00 p.m. It's not 5:00 p.m.

His body will lie in repose there from 6:00 p.m. to 11 p.m. tonight. And it will lie in repose there tomorrow Friday as well, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

And then Saturday is when they will have the funeral mass, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. And then, he will finally be entered at Arlington National Cemetery at 5:30 p.m. That's the burial service at 5:30 p.m. again, that's Saturday. So that's what's going to be going on for the next couple of days.

Let me bring Patricia Murphy into the conversation now. She has been watching. Patricia, your perspective on some of the things you have been watching and some of the things we have shown so far?

PATRICIA MURPHY, COLUMNIST, POLITICSDAILY.COM: I tell you, the speech that you had Kennedy giving on the Senate floor about the minimum wage, the most important piece about that was that that bill passed. It was actually the first time in ten years that the minimum wage was increased.

And it was because Kennedy was both passionate -- you could not miss how passionate he was -- but he was also so pragmatic. He knew how to get a deal done. That's what a Republican senator said to me, he said knows how to do the deals.

And so he took minimum wage, attached it to the Iraq supplemental spending bill. He knew that that was a bill that was going to move. It was never going to pass. So he tacked minimum wage onto that, gave a little something to the Republicans in small business tax breaks.

So you could run a thousand speeches of passionate senators on the Senate floor. But Ted Kennedy was passionate, and then he did it. And that was what was so unique about him.

SANCHEZ: And that is what is going to be missed in the health care debate, at least as far as a lot of insiders, people like yourself have noted n the past, and that's one of the things that Ted Kennedy was known for.

There were two sides of Ted Kennedy. There was Ted Kennedy the guy who could scold the other side and get angry at them and shake a fist as well as anyone. And then there was the guy who was able to reach across the aisle and reach out to people like George W. Bush and other senators and get them to go along with much of that legislation.

And it comes from -- it comes in many ways from a family who had been -- who had politics almost bread into them. It was part of the Kennedy way. It was politics, it was negotiation. It was many things, but it was all Kennedys, as we see in this report by Candy Crowley.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: He had a name that rang down through generations. It was a gilded name in politics, but Ted Kennedy's life was an almost impossible kaleidoscope of outstanding public service, astonishing personal failures, and a heavy burden of the unfulfilled legacies and promise of three older brothers -- Joseph, Jack, Bobby.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It reminds me of, there's a great quote by Earnest Hemingway who said that everyone is broken by life, but afterwards some are stronger in the broken places. CROWLEY: At 36, Teddy, the youngest of the Kennedy's, became the patriarch when Bobby, whose 1968 presidential campaign championed the sick, the poor, and the elderly, was assassinated.

SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY, (D) MASSACHUSETTS: Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others, will someday come to pass for all the world.

CROWLEY: In the four decades since that day, the Kennedy legacy was Teddy's to fulfill, his to write. It's an imperfect story of an often reckless young man who lived hard, and as a U.S. senator, drove a car off a bridge after a party, killing a young campaign aide.

He would never be president. The dream of Camelot, as Jackie Kennedy once described her husband's brief presidency, was over the night Kennedy conceded the primaries to President Jimmy Carter.

KENNEDY: For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

CROWLEY: So Kennedy returned to the Senate. And there, over the next 30 years, he grew older, wiser, and greatly admired. In the Senate was redemption. In the Senate, the dream came alive.

In the Senate, early in the morning, late at night, Ted Kennedy fought and cut deals for minimum wage increases, health care, education, immigration reform, help for the poor, the elderly, and the sick.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Millions of people who counted on this guy every day to stand up for him. And for decades to come, history will talk about his legislative accomplishments and the difference he made in public policy.

CROWLEY: Even before Kennedy's death, colleagues on the right and left mourned his absence in the health care debate. Now, they feel it acutely.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of all the times to lose Ted Kennedy, this is the toughest time, because we are just in too many camps. It is hard to reach across the aisle. And Senator Kennedy made it easy to reach across the aisle.

CROWLEY: Eventually, someone will fill the Senate seat of Edward Moore Kennedy, but there is pretty much universal agreement, nobody, family or friend, can take his place. A man has passed, taking with him a time and an era. The Kennedy legacy is written.

Candy Crowley, CNN Washington.

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SANCHEZ: That's a good report. A lot of you are watching this with us right now. And I think it is an important moment in American history to watch this together. And many of you are asking questions and making comments.

I will share as many as I can from time to time. Let's go to Kitty over here if we can, Johnnie be Good. Kitty says, "Enjoying the coverage of Teddy Kennedy, hope you post those speeches to your blog as well so we can see again. Thanks."

You know what, Kitty, we will try and post as much as we possibly can so you can go in there. It's CNN.com/ricksanchez. Some of them, because they are owned by others, we can't. Others, we can. So we'll go through it.

But speaking of speeches, there is one speech that he gave that was almost like a Shakespearian monologue. It was the speech he gave at the eulogy when his brother Bobby was killed. It is a speech that will last a lifetime. I want you to see that.

We put it together and we put video under it that you have probably never seen before. That's coming up next. Those are some of those pictures we have gotten our hands on. We will be right back with Patricia Murphy and we will show you the Kennedy speech, the eulogy he gave for his brother. We will be right back.

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back to the world headquarters of CNN. I'm Rick Sanchez.

Just a short time ago, I showed you the late Ted Kennedy speaking on the floor of the Senate. A fiery speech it was on the minimum wage. That was from 2007, vintage Ted Kennedy, going to bat for the weak and sparing the rich no quarter.

Now I want to take you back 40 years. This is perhaps Ted Kennedy's most widely quoted speech. If you listen closely, what you will hear is a vision of America that goes in and out of political favor, but somehow carries on.

This is Ted Kennedy's eulogy for his murdered brother, Bobby, who was gunned down while running for president in June of 1968.

I need to explain something to you at this point. Much of what you will see is something most of you have probably never seen before. It is a scene at Arlington Cemetery the night that Bobby Kennedy was laid to rest. It is kind of haunting historical footage.

But putting those pictures under his brother's speech, so you can see it. Here's Ted Kennedy honoring his brother after he died. Let's watch together.

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KENNEDY: Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society.

Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

And I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the globe.

For the fortunate among us there is the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us.

Like it or not, we live in times of danger and uncertainty. But they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history.

All of us will ultimately be judged. And as the years pass, we will surely judge ourselves on the effort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that event.

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature, nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands matched to reason and principle that will determine our destiny.

There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. And in any event, it is the only way we can live.

That is the way he lived. That is what he leaves us.

My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. To be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world.

As he said many times in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say, why? I dream things that never were, and say, why not?

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SANCHEZ: Patricia Murphy and Chad Myers on the other side.

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SANCHEZ: The motorcade is now getting ready to enter into Boston, and now you can see things really plugging up as it gets real close. There is a lot more congestion, more cars stopped. As when he goes over the bypass, you'll notice there's a lot more people now who are gathered trying to get that glimpse.

We're going to check in with Chad and Patricia in just a little bit. There are the pictures I'm talking about. There you see the people starting to gather. We'll take you through more of these. Stay with us. We're going to be right back. Let's sneak one more break in, if we can.

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez. Patricia Murphy joining me now. Let's talk. They're about 10 minutes from the city limits of Boston, where it looks like there's a whole lot of -- you know, when you live in Massachusetts, it's not about being Republican or Democrat, is it? I mean, this is a family that's part of the state's lore.

MURPHY: It is. And we hear a lot about the Kennedy family. Also the Fitzgerald family was a huge political influence. Ted Kennedy's maternal grandfather was the mayor of Boston. He was also very briefly a member of Congress.

And so, there's just -- they're so much a part of the fabric of that entire state that to lose Ted Kennedy, who's, again, as we've said so many times, almost the last of that generation, he takes that entire era with him when he is buried on Saturday.

SANCHEZ: Look at those pictures. That's amazing as we look to see where they've been and where they're going.

MURPHY: Yes.

SANCHEZ: Apparently ending up in JFK library. There's people now gathered at the JFK library and museum. That's where they're going to be waiting for him to arrive.

Patricia and I will continue the conversation on CNN.com in just a little bit. Here's now Wolf Blitzer with "The Situation Room."

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Rick, thanks very much.

Happening now, breaking news -- Senator Ted Kennedy's final journey. We're awaiting the casket's arrival at the JFK library in Boston. We're tracking in the motorcade right now, and the crowd so eager to say good-bye to a local and national hero. Plus, a new era for the Kennedys without their patriarch. We're getting some rare glimpses of this iconic family all together right now. They're burying one of their own yet again.

And another story we're following, a New Jersey neighborhood torn up over a disturbing visitor. Will Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pitch a tent in their backyard?