Ted Kennedy Quotes
For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Edward M. Kennedy, U.S. Senator (Democrat, MA), Presidential Candidate (Democrat), Speech, Democratic Convention, August 13, 1980
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Alexander’s move was a stroke of genius. He wanted to amass a great army but did not have the funds in the royal treasure to pay for it. Instead of squeezing the nobles for more funds, he gave everything away. This signaled a willingness to share the wealth so that the nobles financed the army so that they could amass more with the booty of victory. Perdiccas and a few others refused their shares and committed themselves to Alexander’s “hopes.” See {612208} for Alexander’s mother’s view of his generosity later.
Tilden won the popular vote but was one vote short of the number he needed in the electoral college so the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. The Southern Democrats made a craven deal with the Republicans, whereby they would abandon Tilden and Vote for Rutherford Hayes, and Hays and the Republican Majority in Congress would remove all Federal Troops from Southern States. The Federal Troops were the only force that protected Black rights won after the Civil War, and the South wanted to disenfranchise the Blacks. Hays became president and kept his part of the immoral bargain. With the exception of this act that put the nail in the coffin of civil rights in America and sold out the Blacks for another 80 years. (Without Federal Troops, the KKK was the dominant force in the South.) Rutherford was a good President. But race was at the heart of this disputed and unfortunate election.
Edward Moore Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the Kennedy political family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-continuously-serving senator in United States history. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and was the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.
