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Between senators, a bond of friendship

Kennedy praises Kerry in memoir

Edward M. Kennedy, shown above with John F. Kerry at a Boston fund-raiser, called Kerry a war hero and said he was “deeply moved’’ by the candidate’s reaction to losing the 2004 election. Edward M. Kennedy, shown above with John F. Kerry at a Boston fund-raiser, called Kerry a war hero and said he was “deeply moved’’ by the candidate’s reaction to losing the 2004 election. (Steven Senne/Associated Press/File 2004)
Globe Staff / September 4, 2009

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For years, it has been something of a parlor game in Massachusetts political circles to analyze what was seen as a complicated - but evolving - relationship between the state’s two long-serving US senators, Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry. (Full article: 756 words)

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