Former Iowa Congressman and U.S. Senator John Culver was among those who eulogized Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy in Boston last night.
Culver met Kennedy in 1950 when the two were freshmen at Harvard, but it was a story about an event in 1953 when the two were in summer school. Over the course of about 15 minutes, Culver told the story of his first sailing trip on Kennedy’s boat and it had the crowd erupting in gales of laughter.
“We only got about 200 miracle yards out and I lost the, um, sandwiches,” Culver said, tactfully explaining how was overcome with nausea on the boat. The crowd erupted in laughter. “I thought I was going to die and I’ve never been so miserable and I’m hanging over the side of the boat and he’s screaming at me.”
According to Culver’s account, it was a nearly a gale the day he and Kennedy set out on the 26-foot boat. [click to continue…]
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