CONTROVERSY: Texas A&M Gives Ted Kennedy 'Bush Award for Public Service';

[Texaggie79]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 3, 2003 - The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation today announced that United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy would receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service at a dinner ceremony held at the Bush Library Center on the Texas A&M campus on November 7. Former President Bush will present the award to the Massachusetts Democrat, who will join former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Bush Award recipients. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the Library Center following a 5 p.m. address by the Senator at Rudder Auditorium.
      Senator Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate since he was first elected in 1962 to fill the seat vacated by his brother, President John F. Kennedy. Since then, he has been re-elected seven times, and is now the second most senior member of the Senate.
      Throughout his career, Senator Kennedy has fought for issues that benefit the people of Massachusetts and the nation - particularly the effort to bring quality health care to every American.
      "During his remarkable career spanning over four decades, Senator Kennedy has consistently and courageously fought for his principles - and has rightly earned the respect of his Senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle," said Bush Foundation Executive Director Roman Popadiuk. "His commitment to excellence in public policy and his devotion to public service serve as an inspiration to all Americans and make him a superb recipient of the Bush Award."
      Today, Senator Kennedy is active on a wide range of issues - including all aspects of homeland security and national defense, restoring economic growth and helping the unemployed, improving elementary and secondary schools and making colleges more affordable. He is the ranking Democratic member on the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and a member of the Senate Judiciary and Armed Service Committees. He is also a founder of the Congressional Friends of Ireland and a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
     Kennedy is the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School. His home is in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and children, Curran and Caroline. He also has three grown children, Kara, Edward Jr., and Patrick, and four grandchildren.
     The George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service recognizes an individual's or group's dedication to public service at the local, state, national or international levels. The award underscores President Bush's long service and commitment to public service.
     Recipients of the George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service receive a custom crystal sculpture designed by Eric Hilton for Steuben of New York, as well as a monetary prize.
     This is ticketed event. Free tickets will be available at the Texas A&M MSC Box Office, The Bryan/College Station Eagle at 1729 Briarcrest Drive, WTAW Radio at 2700 Rudder Freeway South and KBTX Television - 4141 East 29th Street.

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CONTACT: Tom Hughes, Texas A&M University Relations at 979/862-4001

10/03/03

[Texaggie79]

Don't ask me.. I don't know what the guys at the GBL are smoking....

[Support Free Republic]

Hi mom!

[Clara Lou]

Well, the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation is not Texas A&M Universty. What idiot wrote the title to this? This means Teddy is coming to town to foul our air. Is it poetic justice that the site of the library was formerly a pig farm?

[Piquaboy]

I would like to know just what type public service this drunk has done. Drowning his secretary is certainly not one of them.

[gaspar]

I'm beginning to realize that the Democrats are right. The Bush family is terminally stupid. Has it ever crossed anyone's mind to see if the Kennedy School at Harvard has ever been so kind to a Bush?

[Akira]

Well, it's a misleading title, but I'm disappointed that anybody in Aggieland would let this idiot on their campus. Good old Teddy, now there's a WMD if I ever saw one.

[JOE6PAK]

It wont work George. NOTHING will win over this BA$TARD!

[bt_dooftlook]

Burnham's Law (after James Burnham) -

"Institutions not explicitly conservative will go liberal over time"

[JOE6PAK]

...make that FAT BA$TARD!

[Texaggie79]

What idiot wrote the title to this?

Drudge.....

[Clara Lou]

I think it's a political ploy-- they'll get pictures of Teddy appearing to receive an award ostensibly from a conservative university (although the university is not involved in this decision) and then use the images against him. Ya think? I can't come up with another reason for giving that licentious, boozing, Mary-Jo-Kapecne-deserting tub of lard an award.

[Clara Lou]

"Institutions not explicitly conservative will go liberal over time"
Please note: It helps if you READ. The university is not giving this award, contrary to what the title indicates. It is the GB Library Foundation-- which is independent of the university.

[Drango]

When Ted Kennedy heard about this, he responded:
"I'll drink to that."

[GatekeeperBookman]

Texas A&M is NO longer Texas A&M. Its over. Women & no Corps. The last few years have been fatal. Vast wealth is now expended for the Left, from the polished granite palace-A&M System World Headquaters-just a block off University ( & they complain that It is not grand-eloquent enough for their elite posteriors to sit-too small, too pedestrian, just won't do any longer ). Like the Bonfire that is no longer, Its over.

[headsonpikes]

inspiration to all Americans

incredulous bump.

[Dog Gone]

That will come as a great surprise to the Corps of Cadets, who thought they still existed.

[GatekeeperBookman]

The current corps ( ver.2003, permutated & attenuated ) is no longer THE Corps. All is changed.

I mean no offense-its just a weather report. My instruments are, however, very accurate. Its a very sad weather report. One must move on to other things.

[ao98]

Here's the real title, and a link Kennedy To Receive Bush Public Service Award.

This is a stupid thing for the Library to do, but I get some comfort in knowing that Kennedy will get the same award as a former Communist Dictator and a Chancellor involved in a bribery scandal.

[sandydipper]

The fat SOB should be teaching swimming lessons in tidal basins.

[Libertina]

The Bush Library Board of Directors needs to be cleaned out immediately. This type of thing happened to Rockefeller too, when his kids took over. Outright communists and socialists.