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WASHINGTON — Chances are Monday’s tribute to Sen. Edward Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention will end with a clip of his pledge to the 1980 convention: “The hope still lives and the dream shall never die.” For many, however, once the last Kennedy brother leaves the U.S. political stage, the hope and the dream will live a little less vigorously.
“The dream will endure as a legacy to the Kennedys,” said Richard Reeves, author of “President Kennedy: Profile of Power.” “But it is just that today, a dream. It’s not the reality of American politics.” Kennedy is being treated for a malignant brain tumor.
