Obama, called the last Kennedy brother, to eulogize Ted at Saturday funeral | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
When Bobby Kennedy, by then senator from New York and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was cut down by an assassin at age 42, his brother, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, offered the eulogy:
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. . . . As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: “Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.”
