Comments on: ted kennedy — what have you done today to better the world http://sevenvillagesblog.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/ Just the facts 'mam -- (please! curb your dog!) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:39:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: alice weiss http://sevenvillagesblog.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/#comment-2446 alice weiss Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:17:34 +0000 http://janetjoakim.wordpress.com/?p=879#comment-2446 Thanks. this is wonderful I can begun with the old Irish phrase, that he would live to comb gray hair. He had every gift and he also had long life. Thanks. this is wonderful I can begun with the old Irish phrase, that he would live to comb gray hair. He had every gift and he also had long life.

]]> By: jjcc http://sevenvillagesblog.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/#comment-2444 jjcc Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:21:09 +0000 http://janetjoakim.wordpress.com/?p=879#comment-2444 mary -- I won't be posting your comments. Please get help, seriously. mary — I won’t be posting your comments. Please get help, seriously.

]]> By: John McDonald http://sevenvillagesblog.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy/#comment-2442 John McDonald Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:02:11 +0000 http://janetjoakim.wordpress.com/?p=879#comment-2442 So well said. I have never known a time in my 65 years that I was not keenly aware that I shared the same home space with the Kennedys. So many times I was involved with them, but never even shook hands with Teddy, but we did wave to each other many times over teh years. Most memorable was when I skippered the boat that carried the National Press Corps to report on Senator Kennedy sailing with Patrick on the sound on his Wianno Senior. I had three secret service agents on my boat. One in the wheelhouse with me, two with the press who included Susan Spenser, Mike Von Fremd, and Bob Kur. We were all surrounded by a USCG flotilla. The Press wanted close ups and I asked my secret service agent how close I could get. The agent checked with the agent stowed below on the senior who asked the senator and he said I could get as close as I was comfortable with and if he felt it was too close he would wave me to back off. The Senator must have felt comfortable because the nose of my boat was probably no further than 5 feet behind the senior and the cameramen were hanging over the rail and Senator Kennedy never flinched. I was afraid my bow would hit his head. Over the past 40 years, he intervened on my behalf a half dozen times and never refused and every time his help quickly resolved the problem. I owe him a lot. So well said.

I have never known a time in my 65 years that I was not keenly aware that I shared the same home space with the Kennedys. So many times I was involved with them, but never even shook hands with Teddy, but we did wave to each other many times over teh years.

Most memorable was when I skippered the boat that carried the National Press Corps to report on Senator Kennedy sailing with Patrick on the sound on his Wianno Senior.

I had three secret service agents on my boat. One in the wheelhouse with me, two with the press who included Susan Spenser, Mike Von Fremd, and Bob Kur. We were all surrounded by a USCG flotilla.

The Press wanted close ups and I asked my secret service agent how close I could get. The agent checked with the agent stowed below on the senior who asked the senator and he said I could get as close as I was comfortable with and if he felt it was too close he would wave me to back off.

The Senator must have felt comfortable because the nose of my boat was probably no further than 5 feet behind the senior and the cameramen were hanging over the rail and Senator Kennedy never flinched. I was afraid my bow would hit his head.

Over the past 40 years, he intervened on my behalf a half dozen times and never refused and every time his help quickly resolved the problem. I owe him a lot.

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