[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 13 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1356]
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                      MRS. ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I join my colleagues in extending my 
sincere sympathy to my friend and colleague, Senator Ted Kennedy on the 
death of his mother.
  Mrs. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy lived a life that saw more than its 
share of public tragedy and private sorrow. Her courage and her 
profound faith in her church and her God gave her the strength to be 
the support of her children and an inspiration to all Americans.
  Mrs. Kennedy's passing is a loss to our Nation. No one old enough to 
remember will ever forget the fortitude with which she bore the 
assassination of two beloved sons, President John F. Kennedy and 
Senator Robert Kennedy.
  Her public strength helped the Nation endure, as her private strength 
has always been, in the words of her son John, ``the glue that held the 
Kennedy family together.''
  The tragedies she suffered did not diminish her sense of service. 
Into an age where no one would have questioned a desire to retire from 
public life, she traveled tirelessly, promoting the work of the Joseph 
P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, to aid the mentally retarded.
  Her spirit and work earned her the admiration of the entire world and 
made Americans very proud.
  So today I know that I express the sentiment of all of our colleagues 
in saying that our prayers are with her son, our colleague, Ted, and 
her other children and grandchildren on this occasion.
  I yield the floor.

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