Sen. Ted Kennedy gave two rousing convention speeches, in 1980 and 2008. The 1980 address came after Kennedy did not win the party nomination, while the 2008 speech came after his cancer diagnosis.

Kennedy, to Carter's annoyance, got there first, making it look as if the Administration was racing its motors and padding its numbers to catch up—and, worse still, fueling the corrosive gossip in the ...

Last summer, as I flew toward Denver for the Democratic Convention on a small jet with Ted Kennedy, his family and a few friends, I thought of another convention 28 years before. It was the one ...

Over 43 years in the senate, Democrat Ted Kennedy has fought serial battles on behalf of the working class—from defending overtime pay and workplace-safety regulations to expanding health-care ...