Friday, August 28, 2009
It’s hard to imagine a senator from Massachusetts having many ties to Kansas, but a special exhibit at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics honoring Sen. Edward Kennedy shows otherwise.
Sen. Kennedy died last Tuesday from brain cancer.
The exhibit features a timeline of Kennedy’s life as well as photos and documents from the Dole Institute’s archives that showcase Kennedy’s 47-year career. The exhibit focuses on how senators Kennedy and Robert Dole, a Republican from Kansas, worked together across party lines and forged an unlikely friendship.
“Obviously, they did not agree on everything,” Morgan Davis, senior archivist for the Dole Institute, said. “But they were key figures in their respective parties and worked together closely.”
Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute, said the senators served together for 30 years and had extraordinarily good relations.
“We wanted to point back to two guys, one a Democrat, one a Republican, one a Liberal and one a Conservative, who always had time to chat and be great friends,” Lacy said.
Included in the display is a photograph of the two together from Sen. Dole’s last day as a senator before resigning to focus on the 1996 presidential campaign. Lacy points to this photograph to show how close the friendship between Kennedy and Dole was.
“You can see, even on Sen. Dole’s last day, they are sill laughing and goofing off,” Lacy said.
Two major pieces of legislation the senators worked together on were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination illegal, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which lowered the voting age to 18 years old.
One of their most famous joint-efforts was a 2-minute daily radio program called “Face-Off,” which both senators recorded from 1984-1987. Lacy said the senators would get together and debate an issue of the day. At one point, “Face-Off” was syndicated to 88 radio stations across the country.
Margarita Caulfield, Russell sophomore and member of the Dole Institute’s student advisory board, said Kennedy was important because, among other things, he was a member of one of America’s great political power families.
“I’m saddened by Sen. Kennedy’s passing because he stood for great integrity and strong bipartisanship,” Caulfield said. “Sen. Dole stood for the same things.”
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