I was listening to the radio this afternoon...and one lady rang in saying that although she never met him...she felt like she was losing a family friend....apparently her brother for many years served as a publicist for several democrats...including Kennedy....eventually he tired of politics and he and his wife left to open a restaurant....apparently her brother and sister in law and several of their employees were murdered several years later....and Kennedy rang up her mother to personally give his condolences...and he rang up her nieces and spoke with them for a long time...telling them that if there was anything they needed any help at all to let him know....most politicians if they gave any notice at all would have an assistant do it....but he did it personally....

I think that whatever his mistakes in the past were, that the people of the US lost the best friend they had....