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Kids convinced Kennedy to quit Senate bid

Source: United Press International

Albany : NY : USA | 6 months ago

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Senate seat in New York because her children were alarmed at the person she had become, a family friend said. Kennedy's three children "told her that if she was getting this worked up just getting the job, they didn't want to see what she would be like in the trenches of a political campaign or a fight in Washington,"...

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