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« Firefighters called to fire in Pawtucket | Today | Photos: Beating the heat at Lincoln's Olney Pond » June 9, 2008Update: Sen. Kennedy returns home to Cape / Photo
BOSTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said it was "good to be home" after flying back to Massachusetts on Monday, one week after undergoing an aggressive and delicate surgery to treat a cancerous brain tumor. Kennedy left the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., on Monday morning and arrived at his family's compound in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod just before noon. Kennedy, who was wearing a hat, told reporters waiting outside his home it was "good to be home, good to be here." When asked how he was feeling, he said, "Glad to be home, I'll tell ya." His son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, is doing well after the surgery. "It went better than anyone expected," Kennedy said last night at the Rhode Island Democratic State Convention. Sen. Kennedy's office released a statement today, saying the senator's "doctors are pleased with his progress since surgery a week ago, and he will continue to recuperate at home before starting the next phase of his treatment. He is thankful for the extraordinary care of the doctors and nurses at Duke, and also for the continued prayers and well wishes from the people of Massachusetts and all over the country." Patrick Kennedy said his father is now looking ahead to working with Sen. Barack Obama, whom the Rhode Island Democratic Party yesterday endorsed unanimously for president. "I know he's planning for the future," Patrick Kennedy said of his father, "and being chairman of the committee that will consider the health-care legislation when Obama is president." Sen. Kennedy has worked for universal health care since his election to the senate in 1962. His recent illness, according to Patrick Kennedy, has added urgency to the potential legislation. He really wants to make sure that he's ready to go," Patrick Kennedy said about his father, "so that he can make health care available to everyone else who needs it." -- With reports from Journal staff writer Scott MacKay and the Associated Press Posted by Brandie Jefferson CommentsBOB JOHNSON SR. | June 9, 2008 1:08 PM link I am so happy to see Senator Kennedy return home to Massachusetts. I am hoping for nothing but the best for you and your family. Continue recovering. kathy nystrom | June 9, 2008 8:37 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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Oct 2005 - March 2006
good luck and god speed to senator TED KENNEDY. MAYBE WITH A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE AND SENATE AND A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT,WE CAN FINALLY FULFILL THE AMBITIONS OF MANY PATRIOTIC AND CARING LEADERSI/E PRESIDENT J.F.K. BOBBY KENNEDY, MARTIN LUTHER KING AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN OPEN AND SERVITUDAL INHABITANTS OF EXTREMELY POWERFUL POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT.PERSONALLY, I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK DEEP INTO OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM,AND MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO REPLACE DESPOTS, LIKE SCALIA AND THOMAS,WHOSE ONLY RATIONAL TO ANY ARGUMENT IS WHETHER IT IS RIGHT OR LEFT,NOT RIGHT OR WRONG!!! THEY ARE POLITICAL PUNDITS, CONTROLLED BY A STRONG CONSERVATIVE ADMINISTRATION.ONE NEED LOOK NO FURTER THAN THE 2004 FLORIDA ELECTION DEBACLE,TO SEE WHERE THEIR ALLEGIANCES LIE.
I AM JUST A PROUD AND PATRIOTIC NAVY VETERAN,WHO LOST MY BELOVED SON IN THE STATION FIRE TRAGEDY,THAT KNOWS ALL TOO WELL, THAT JUSTICE AS PERCEIEVED BY OUR FOREFATHERS IS NO MORE AVAILABLE TO CURRENT CITIZENS. I KNOW THAT SENATOR KENNEDY WOULD BE VERY PROUD OF HIS SON PATRICK,IF PATRICK GOT A LITTLE INVOLVED IN WHAT WAS A DESPCTABLE ACT OF JUCUCIAL AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT OR AT LEAST MISJUDGEMENT IN THE STATION FIRE MISHEARINGS.
THANK YOU REPRESENTATIVE KENNEDY,AND WE ALL WISH YOUR FATHER A SPEEDY RECOVERY,
GOD BLESS YOU ALL BOB JOHNSON SR. EASTON PA. 18045 "DEREKS' DAD "