"Dad, the 'unfinished business' is done."

Source: The Washington Post

Ted Kennedy’s youngest son, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, visited his father’s grave on the day after health care reform was passed. He left a hand-written note, written on one of his congressional note cards: “Dad, the ‘unfinished business’ is done.”
Senator Kennedy, in a letter delivered to President Obama by Vicki Kennedy after her husband’s death, had written: “You will be the president who at long last signs into law the health care reform that is the great unfinished business of our society.”
Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. There were hundreds of visitors to his grave site this week, including family members and colleagues. David Bowen, who had been Kennedy’s health director, had vowed at the senator’s funeral that he would not visit the grave until health care reform was passed.

Vicki Kennedy channels her husband during final days of lobbying

Vicki Kennedy visited the grave outside of public visiting hours on Sunday, saying she wanted to be near her husband on the day health care reform was passed. Mrs. Kennedy has been very active in support of the legislation that was her husband’s legacy.

For the past seven months, Vicki made it the cause of her life as well. In the days before her visit to her husband’s grave, she had quietly visited the Capitol, again and again, to meet one on one with wavering House members. She stayed in regular contact with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and senior White House officials. “She was very substantive in just explaining what the bill would do for average Americans,” said Michael Myers, who worked on Kennedy’s staff for 23 years as a health policy adviser. “And, of course, she would say she was channeling the senator in doing that.”

Hours before the final vote, Patrick Kennedy spoke of his father on the House floor, saying “His heart and soul are in this bill.”
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