Volume 30, Number 21 & 22 · January 19, 1984
The Kennedy Brothers
By Murray Kempton
Did many of us much notice that, when the last fiddle and bow of John F. Kennedy's threnody had been laid aside, Sen. Edward Kennedy went off at once to Little Mud, an eastern Kentucky mine patch, to visit the cabins where pinto beans would be all too often the Thanksgiving dinner? But then it has never been easy for most of us to recognize that President Kennedy's best monument may well be the only one of his brothers left alive.
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