Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in action in World War II; and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.
Kennedy entered the Senate in a November 1962 special election to fill the seat once held by his brother John. He was elected to a full six-year term in 1964 and was reelected seven more times before his death. The controversial Chappaquiddick incident on July 18, 1969, resulted in the death of his automobile passenger Mary Jo Kopechne; Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, and the incident significantly damaged his chances of ever becoming President of the United States. His one attempt, in the 1980 presidential election, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
Arlen Specter (born February 12, 1930) is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter is a Democrat, but was a Republican from 1965 until switching to the Democratic Party in 2009. First elected in 1980, he represented his state for thirty years in the Senate. Specter is a moderate who staked out a spot in the political center.
Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas to an American mother and a father who immigrated from Russia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and served with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Specter later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law firm with Marvin Katz, who would later become a federal judge. Specter served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and helped devise the "single bullet theory." In 1965, Specter was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia, a position that he would hold until he lost his re-election bid in 1973.
On April 28, 2009, Specter announced that, after 44 years as an elected Republican, he was switching membership to the Democratic Party, On May 18, 2010, Specter was defeated in the Democratic primary by Joe Sestak, who then was defeated by current Senator Pat Toomey in the general election. Toomey replaced Specter on January 3, 2011.
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–07).
The son of Lenore and George W. Romney (Governor of Michigan, 1963–69), he was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In 1966, after one year at Stanford University, he left the United States to spend thirty months in France as a Mormon missionary. In 1969, he married Ann Davies, and the couple had five children together. In 1971, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Brigham Young University and, in 1975, a joint Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University as a Baker Scholar. He entered the management consulting industry, which in 1977, led to a position at Bain & Company. Later serving as Chief Executive Officer, he helped bring the company out of financial crisis. In 1984, he co-founded the spin-off Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm that became highly profitable and one of the largest such firms in the nation. His net worth is estimated at $190–250 million, wealth that has helped fund his political campaigns. Active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served as Ward Bishop and later Stake President in his area near Boston. He ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, losing to long-time incumbent Ted Kennedy. In 1999, he was hired as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics; and he helped turn the fiscally troubled games into a success.
Dreamer. Rebel. Leader. Brother.
Plot
They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy women. What really unfolded behind the monolith of Kennedy power is revealed for the first time: the true story of the Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.
Keywords: aristocrat, assassination-of-president, based-on-book, camelot, character-name-in-title, children-playing-football, cover-up, cuban-missile-crisis, death-of-husband, death-of-president
They Were More Than Washington Wives
The secret lives of the Kennedy families.
Robert F. Kennedy: He'll never have me as Vice President. If he had to choose between me or Ho Chi Mihn as his running mate, he'd choose Ho Chi Mihn.
Rose Kennedy: What are you girls gossiping about?::Jackie Kennedy: Ethel and I were just talking about how well Bobby sleeps. Jackie and Ethel are smirking.
Plot
Joseph Kennedy Jr. was the eldest son of the Kennedy clan. He grew up having to deal with being humiliated and the prejudices of being an Irish Catholic. His father then tells him that the best way to get back at them is make a big impact in politics, in other words to one day be the President of the United States, and he wishes to do so. But first he has to survive World War II, and also he has to do something to make a splash like his brother, Jack who was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal in 1943 following his exploits commanding PT 109.
Keywords: based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, death-of-son, kennedy-family, world-war-two
(Verse 1)
I've been looking for this groove
You've had it, I need it
I can show you how to move
To stay with your feet up
(Bridge)
Baby girl we'll dance
Until the moon aborts the sky
Baby girl we'll dance
Until the sun collapses the night
(Chorus)
Baby girl you hold it
Love the way your moving
I just wanna see you free
Boogie till the morning
Boogie till next evening
Baby I will set you free
Do you want me to do it?
(what you wanna do)
Do you want me to do it?
(what you wanna do)
Do you want me to do it?
(what you wanna do)
Do you want me to do it?
(what you wanna do)
Boogie till the sky is blue
The moon is our enemy
Slide until you burn your shoes
Or free fly so freely
(Bridge)
(Chorus)
Got ya girl just do it like me
Baby girl do let me
Don't think about just move your feet
Baby girl move your feet
Rock it girl just do it like me
Baby girl do it like me
Don't think about it
Just move your feet
Baby girl move your feet
(Bridge)
(Chorus)
Do you want me to do it?
(what you wanna do)
Do you want me to do it?
(what you wanna do)
Do you want me to do it?
(what you wanna do)
Do you want me to do it?
i was...
not worth knowing
visible awful but not seen
alone always forever - beauty opposite
transparent hear me - listen - right here
i was...
kept walking awful unnoticed
beauty opposite - alone
island stay off
wait... someone
sink alone not seen
it was time - end
it was time - end
i was...
visible awful but not seen
alone always forever - beauty opposite
transparent see me - right here
i was...
kept walking awful unnoticed
beauty opposite deserted - alone
island stay off
wait... someone wait
sink alone not seen
it was time - end
it was time - end
could have stopped it