TIME: Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009: The Brother Who Mattered Most

Because Kennedy never made it to the finish line, he never had to endure a post-presidential twilight. Instead, by the time of his death on Aug. 25 in Hyannis Port at the age of 77, he had 46 working years in Congress, time enough to leave his imprint on everything from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009, a law that expands support for national community-service programs. Over the years, Kennedy was a force behind the Freedom of Information Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. He helped Soviet dissidents and fought apartheid. Above all, he conducted a four-decade crusade for universal health coverage, a poignant one toward the end as the country watched a struggle with a brain tumor. But along the way, he vastly expanded the network of neighborhood clinics, virtually invented the COBRA system for portable insurance and helped create the laws that provide Medicare prescriptions and family leave.

So does it matter that Kennedy never made it to the presidency? Any number of mere Presidents have been pretty much forgotten. But as the Romans understood, there can be Emperors of no consequence — and Senators whose legacies are carved in stone.

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not been murdered.

the other brothers don't matter as much? Who says shit like that? Honestly.

Nice to see some record of his work, which so many reports fail to bother with, but the headline writer/editors should be fired.

Ted would not have liked that headline. He would not have liked it at all.

One died fighting fascism as a Navy flyer.
One died fighting to keep peace as President.
One died fighting to bring peace as Senator.
One lived to make life for all worth living as Senator.

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