[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9468]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    WELL WISHES FOR SENATOR KENNEDY

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I received a call early Saturday morning 
that Senator Kennedy had taken ill. Since that time, we have heard only 
encouraging words from his doctors and his family. I spoke to Vicki, 
his wonderful wife, a couple hours ago. He is resting comfortably. He 
is having some more tests run today. He is doing very well. Vicki tells 
me Senator Kennedy is not only up moving around, but over the weekend 
he was able to watch some movies, but, more importantly, he was able to 
watch some Red Sox games. I would note in passing, it cannot hurt his 
recovery that the Red Sox have won three games in a row.
  Anyone who knows Senator Kennedy and his tremendous work ethic 
realizes no one is more eager to get back to work than Senator Kennedy.
  So to my good friend, the Senator from Massachusetts, I say: Rest and 
get well. All of your friends and colleagues in the Senate wish you the 
very best and look forward to your quick return because there is a lot 
of work we are depending on you to do. We have a number of things, of 
course, we were working on together last week.
  I talked to him Friday at some length. I am going to give a couple 
speeches--actually three--on Wednesday because we are having 
celebrations here in the Capitol on the 100th birthday of Senator, 
Majority Leader, and President Johnson. It was interesting to hear 
Senator Kennedy--who had worked with him in all of his capacities, as 
Senator, majority leader, Vice President, and President--some of the 
comments he had about President Johnson.
  So we look forward to Ted being back as soon as possible.

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