The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
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Christine Pelosi was a contemporary American political analyst. Christine Paule Pelosi is an American Democratic Party political strategist from California. She is the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and businessman Paul Pelosi and sister of Alexandra Pelosi. Read more on Wikipedia →

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