Sargent Shriver attends dedication of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
Convention rejuvenates Kennedy in twilight of career
The liberal lion is doing everything in his power to make fellow Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry the next president.
08:06 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 27, 2004
BY SCOTT MacKAY
Journal Staff Writer
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Journal photo / Mary Murphy
Senator Kennedy leads the crowd in singing "Sweet Rosie O'Grady," one of his mother's favorite songs, at the dedication of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, which will supplant the old, elevated Central Artery, a highway whose successor was built underground.
BOSTON -- The rivulets of sweat dripped down his forehead and onto the Democratic Party's most recognizable crimson face yesterday morning, as Sen. Ted Kennedy's baritone bellowed a verse from an Irish ditty his mother favored.
"I love sweet Rosie O'Grady," Kennedy led the crowd of more than 500 in singing. "And Rosie O'Grady loves me."
Kennedy was the emcee for yesterday's dedication of a new park, the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, named in honor of Kennedy's mother, the late matriarch of Massachusetts' first family of Democratic politics.
On stage with Kennedy were his sisters Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Jean Kennedy Smith. Seated near the stage under a billowing white tent at the celebration in Boston's North End were scores of family members, including Sargent Shriver, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is one of the last of the living New Frontier liberals.
