Biden’s visit to the JFK Library this week highlighted the links between the nation’s only two Catholic presidents.
“You think of what he might have done with a few more years, and you wonder what you’re going to do with the rest of yours,” the letter from Joseph P. Kennedy said. “Then one day, because there is a world to be lived in, you find yourself a part of it again, trying to accomplish something — something he did not have time enough to do.”
Beyond that, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, John’s brother, entered the Senate at age 30, and Biden joined him a decade later, also at age 30, to begin a long friendship and partnership. Ted Kennedy not only showed Biden the ropes — regularly trekking to Biden’s office in Dirksen Senate Office Building — but embodied for Biden the way the Senate should run.
When Biden first ran for Senate in 1972, his mother hosted “coffees” that were modeled on a Kennedy family technique, even bringing in an old Kennedy hand, Matt Reese, who had helped organize the events for the family. It was a self-deprecating quip about Ted Kennedy’s own age; he had entered the Senate amid questions about his own youth and whether he had benefited from his family name. But Biden said some newspapers missed the joke, intentionally or not, publishing headlines like “Kennedy says Biden too young to be in the Senate.”
At another moment, when Biden was recovering from an aneurysm, Ted Kennedy took the train to Wilmington, Del., to visit him, bringing an etching of a big Irish stag that he’d had framed.
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