Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said today that Sen. Ted Kennedy was “such a strong champion of what America stands for: caring for others, equality and progress.”
“Because of Ted Kennedy, more Americans are proud of our country,” Reid said. “His America is one in which we could all pursue justice.”
“The liberal lion’s mighty roar, I will always remember, may now fall silent, but his dreams shall never die,” he said.
Reid recounted how, as founder of a Young Democrats club at his university, he received a letter from then-President-elect John F. Kennedy.
“I’ve been a devotee of the Kennedys for a long time,” he said. “At so many difficlult times in Kennedy family history, they turned to their Uncle Ted for comfort. And at so many critical times in our country’s history, America has turned to Ted Kennedy for that same comfort.”
“Sen. Kennedy’s legacy stands with the greatest … to ever serve Congress,” Reid said. “The impact he has etched in our history will long endure.”
