The room was a virtual museum

But he was also quick to point out that Mr Bush refused to fund the initiative. "Sadly," he said in 07, "President Bush has yet to learn his lesson on leaving no child behind." In , he won approval of, and praised Mr Bush for signing legislation giving students easier access to college loans. At the same time, he ripped into Mr Bush for his management of the economy. "The president continues to bail out Wall Street and help the oil industry reap even larger profits, while blocking needed relief for the American people," Senator Kennedy said. He made that statement in late April. On May 17, he was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering a seizure and was found to have a malignant brain tumour. A few days later, Senator Kennedy, his wife and their dogs were sailing in his -metre schooner on Nantucket Sound. That's the Senator Kennedy his friends and colleagues remember. He was a survivor, one who would read the Hotline political briefing to see what jokes Jay Leno had made at his expense, then shrug. He was a regular guy, happily married since 1992 to his second wife, Vicki Reggie; the cheery fellow who would walk around the Capitol with his Portuguese water dog, Splash, or who dressed up at a Christmas party as Barney the dinosaur. He was the happy warrior, rising from his radiation and chemotherapy in August to deliver a spirited speech for Barack Obama Rosetta Stone Spanish Spain at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. And he was beloved by his peers in public life as few ever are. Even the Queen acknowledged his special role on history's stage when she made him an honorary knight of the British Empire in early March . Most notably, he was the last Kennedy warrior, the brother who never gave up. Maybe the signature Kennedy moment in recent years came in May 1999, a month after students killed their classmates at Colorado's Columbine High School. Senator Kennedy had been fighting for restrictions on guns for more than 30 years. In 1968, the year his brother Robert was killed, Congress placed curbs on handguns but not rifles or shotguns and, in 1994, Democrats muscled an assault weapons ban into law. On May , 1999, the Senate approved restrictions on gun shows - by one vote. Not a huge victory, but a win for the cause. Senator Kennedy sat in his private third-floor Capitol office, one with no nameplate on the door. The room was a virtual museum. There was a rocking chair once made for his brother, the president. His father's desk sat nearby. There was a black and white photo of Bobby with one of his children, and a huge painting of Joe jnr, his oldest brother, killed in World War II. Kennedy spoke a bit about his gun-show victory, saying he won because "the fear has become broader and more understandable" following Columbine. There was no gloating, no victory celebration. He knew that success in politics is achieved incrementally and humbly. He offered few thoughts; mostly he just smiled. The hope still lives, his body language said, and the dream will never die.

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