President Biden delivered an emotional eulogy for Ethel Kennedy, widow of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on Wednesday. Biden told those in attendance how Kennedy offered emotional support when he lost his wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972, and when his son, Beau, died in 2015. “To the Kennedy family,” he said, “the Biden family is here for you, as you’ve always been for us.”
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Four years later, after I’d gotten after Bobby, she lost her beloved Bobby.
She invited me and my boys to her home after the accident left my family broken, having lost my wife and daughter.
My boys barely making it along with Teddy.
She got me through a time.
I didn’t wanna stick around.
I want no part of being in the Congress in the Senate.
I made it.
I spoke to my governor because we elected a democratic governor to find a replacement for me.
But Teddy and Ethel Kennedy would hear none, none of it.
To the Kennedy family presumptuous me to say this and maybe sound inappropriate.
But to the Kennedy family, the Biden family is here for you.
It has always been for us.
You changed the life of my boys.
You really did.
I lost my son.
Your mom was there then too.
I apologize.
So from the Biden family to the Kennedy family, him, it’s very close to our heart.
Based on the 91st, Psalm goes like this.
May he raise you up on eagle’s wings and bear you on the breath of dawn?
Make you to shine like the sun and hold you in the palm of his hand.
May God bless Ethel Kennedy.
And maybe she, maybe she be reunited with the blessed pieces of her soul in heaven.
God bless you all.
Thanks for letting me participate.
Thank you.