"Senate Has Changed in Kennedy’s Time"

An excerpt from a great article in the NY Times, "Senate Has Changed in Kennedy’s Time":

To Mr. Caro, Mr. Kennedy’s own knowledge of Senate history and reverence for its ideals were yet another reminder of why [Kennedy] deserved a place in the pantheon of Senate greats, alongside men like Webster and Calhoun and Clay. But it was also a reminder of how much the Senate had changed during Mr. Kennedy’s 46 years there.

“Ted Kennedy was a senator out of another, very different, Senate era: an era in which senators who believed in great causes stood at their desks, year after year and decade after decade, fighting for those causes, and educating the country about them,” Mr. Caro said.

To read the entire article, check out the Times.