Vicki Kennedy, continuing public re-emergence, recalls reading husband’s memoir aloud with him
By Glen Johnson, APThursday, December 3, 2009
Vicki Kennedy recalls reading memoir with husband
BOSTON — Vicki Kennedy says her late husband never saw a completed copy of his memoir, but Sen. Edward Kennedy “knew every word” because they had already read it aloud to each other.
Continuing her public re-emergence after the senator’s death, Kennedy told a crowd at the John F. Kennedy Library on Thursday that “True Compass” arrived at their Cape Cod home Aug. 25. He died that evening of brain cancer.
She says the best-seller, released in September, was her husband’s chance to tell his life’s story after so many outsiders had tried.
She says it’s based on contemporaneous notes he kept for more than 50 years. It contains his reflections on current events, meetings with world leaders and his famous political family.
She says her husband “wanted to get it right for history.”
