advocates for americans of all abilities. and teddy, the youngest brother with the biggest heart, he was a happy warrior who never forgot who we were sent here to serve and waged a decades-long battle on behalf of those folks who sent us here for workers rights and immigrants rights and the right to affordable health care. tonight our sympathies are with the love of teddy's life, vickie, as she mourns the loss of her father, judge edmond reggie. and it's all told a legacy of service that the kennedy family continues to this day, from caroline who's already drawing crowds of her own as she settles into her role as ambassador in japan, to his great nephew, and massachusetts' newest congressman, joe kennedy, to the school of public service that bears the family name and teaches its young leaders how the too might one day pass the torch to a new generation.