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[Jim] McGovern globetrotting to make Kennedy funeral
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Aug 27, 2009 09:32pm |
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| Author | Foon Rhee |
| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Friday, August 28, 2009 01:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Weather willing, Representative Jim McGovern will land at Logan International Airport Friday afternoon just in time to say good-bye to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, after 26 hours of travel from halfway around the globe.
Hearing of Kennedy’s death while on a week-long congressional delegation tour of Iraq and Afghanistan, McGovern worked with aides to race home on commercial flights that have him hopscotching from Kabul to Kuwait to Germany to Boston.
“Once we knew the group itinerary wasn’t going to cut it, we had to find another way,” said McGovern’s spokesman Michael Mershon. "It never would have occurred to Jim not to do everything possible to make it."
As a child in Worcester, McGovern grew up with an easy familiarity with the Kennedys. After Robert Kennedy’s assassination, his mother had he and his sisters pen condolence notes to Ethel Kennedy. In his political life, he has styled himself as a “Ted Kennedy Democrat” a reflection of the Kennedy brother who most shaped his political views and inspired him to become active in public life.
“After the senator’s 47 years of service to the state and the country, Jim just thought a few extra hours on a plane wasn’t be too much to ask,” said Mershon.
"No one can ever fill his shoes. But we can, and must, follow in his footsteps," McGovern said in his statement after Kennedy's death. "The work goes on, and the cause endures. The best tribute we could pay him is a renewed vigor in the fight to see his dreams realized. The world is going to miss Ted Kennedy. I already do. He was my inspiration, my mentor, my colleague and my friend. Slán go foill, senator." |
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