It's not as if Teddy Kennedy knows much about the Military. Couldn't figure out what Teddy Kennedy did in the Army after getting bounced from Harvard the first time. Finally found this. Wonder just how a rich ner'do'well gets to go to Paris to the Supreme Command...especially after cheating at Harvard. Rich Dad? There is much more to his story than the press has told, I would venture. We were in the Korean War at that time. #####
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Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) Army 1951-53 Pfc.
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Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy, (born February 22, 1932, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. He is known as one of America's leading liberal politicians.
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1 Family and youth
2 Early career
3 Chappaquiddick
4 Presidential bid
5 No child left behind
6 Views on abortion
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Family and youth
Kennedy is the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He attended Milton Academy and entered Harvard College in 1950. He was suspended from Harvard in May 1951 after he arranged for another student to take a final examination in a Spanish class in his place. He then entered the U.S. Army for two years; he was assigned to the SHAPE***** headquarters in Paris. Kennedy eventually re-entered Harvard, graduating in June 1956. He got his law degree from the University of Virginia and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1959. While he was in law school, he managed his brother John's 1958 Senate re-election campaign.
His home is in Hyannis Port, Mass., where he lives with his wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and her children, Curran and Caroline. He has three grown children from his first marriage with Virginia Joan Bennett: Kara, Edward Jr., and Patrick, and four grandchildren. After his brothers John and Robert were assasinated (in 1963 and 1968, respectively), he took on the role of surrogate father for 13 more children.
Ted Kennedy was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1962 to fill the seat left vacant by his oldest brother, John F. Kennedy, upon the latter's election as president of the United States, and has successfully run for re-election in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, and 2000.
In the current Senate (as of 2004), Kennedy is second only to Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) as its longest-serving member. According to The Almanac of American Politics, he has served longer than all but four other senators in U.S. history. According to NPR, Kennedy plans to run again in 2006. If he wins and serves out his full six-year term, he will have served in the U.S. Senate for fifty years, the longest service of any Senator to date.
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******Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the central command of NATO military forces in Europe.
Until 1967 it was situated in France, at Fontainebleau near Paris. Following the withdrawal of France from NATO's military command, it was relocated to Mons in Belgium.
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