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Transcript: 'A Heart Bigger Than All Outdoors'
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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
08-29-2009
'A Heart Bigger Than All Outdoors'
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 12:00-13:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
There's an outpouring of love as Edward Kennedy is laid to rest today. He stirred up feelings on all sides. He was the most natural politician among the Kennedys - charming, funny, self- effacing.
He loved to tell the story of how when he first ran for the Senate, a man on the street asked, Teddy, is it true what they say, you never worked a day in your life? That point in his life, Ted Kennedy had only campaigned for his brother, served briefly as a U.S. Army honor guard in Paris, and gone to law school.
So he said, yes. Well, let me ...