More than five years has passed since U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy passed away at his home in Cape Cod. Tomorrow, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute will open next door to the JFK Presidential Library in Dorchester. The Institute includes a full scale replica of the US Senate chamber – a place Kennedy served for 47 years.
Senator Kennedy’s legacy will hopefully continue through this institute, igniting the imagination and inspiring future generations to embrace civil service and help to build a better community by focusing on those who need help the most; not just those who can afford attorneys and lobbyists.
BosGuy 
His legacy – via this Institute and many others that are smaller in scale and without the (precedented) fanfare serve our country to engage all the generations to the US Senate – one of the coolest things ALL visitors will see when in the replica US Senate room is how physically it is emotionally, psychology and politically easy it is to reach across the aisle and make good government.
You may have despised Teddy- or loved him – but he has blessed us with such a legacy.
It is almost unfathomable to get all of the loss he had in life.
This morning on of his children stated, “Always remember your mother.”
I just hope that the shorthand of EMK Library does not become our common slang. The Edward M. Kennedy Institute does not deserve shorthand.
Those who know me understand that I am liberal (not Irish Catholic like the Kennedy family – more on the Jewish immigrant side) and if you really follow politics you must join me in the tremendous admiration I have for Sen. John McCain’s heartfelt and honest recollection speech today.
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