Do you think Edward Kennedy still loves the sea?
The old man and the sea. And his son.
Normally, we see Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy in the Senate, speaking fire, or at the Democratic National Convention last summ
er. Or, at other times this year, in an ambulance en route to a hospital.
The iconic liberal senator is suffering from a malignant brain tumor.
But while the nation's political spotlight is focused on Chicago and the ongoing formation of a new Democratic White House administration, our friends over at TMZ.com quietly caught the senator and his son Patrick on the dock in a brief video.
No words necessary to explain these few quiet moments between father and son near the end of a day down by the sea.
-- Andrew Malcolm
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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