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May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedy:
Things he succeeded at:
- the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- the Voting Rights Act
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Head Start
- Legal Services
- the War on Poverty
- environmental legislation
- OSHA
- bringing down Richard Nixon on the Watergate investigations
- ending the Vietnam War
- stopping military aid to the Contras in Central America
- the Martin Luther King holiday
- stopping Robert Bork
- the increases in the minimum wage
- Family and Medical Leave
- National Service
- S-CHIP
Things he tried really hard to do, but couldn't quite pull off:
- universal health care
- labor law reform
- stopping the Iraq war
(List gleefully stolen from: here)
Ted Kennedy is sort of like the Democratic Jiminy Cricket-- If Jiminy knew how to kick parliamentary ass.
Posted by Andrew at May 21, 2008 07:15 AM
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