Edward M. Kennedy
Senator Edward Kennedy was a topic of several of Levin's books through the decades. As a progressive, Levin could be scathing about Kennedy, but he did concede in 1980 that he was the most effective person in the pre-1980 Presidential election Senate. (The Democrats lost their majority in the Senate for the first time since the 1950s.) However, he felt that this situation was an indictment of American democracy rather than an endorsement of Kennedy.
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