Nice Ted Kennedy story from a pastor in Lancaster, PA

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This was in my hometown paper.

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/241546

Lancaster pastor recalls meeting, praying with Sen. Kennedy
'I remember it like it was yesterday' Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster New Era
Aug 29, 2009
By DAVID O’CONNOR, Staff Writer

It was April 1979, and the Rev. Christian already had started pastoring a Lancaster-based church and was in Washington, D.C., to give the invocation at a major union convention.

The man for whom he felt led to pray?

It was the U.S. senator giving the speech at the convention, Edward Kennedy, brother of the last U.S. president to die in office — and who, within the year, would launch his own bid for the nation's highest office.

Christian walked over to Kennedy after the senator's speech and, noting the loss of two of Kennedy's brothers to assassins' bullets and other well-known family tragedies, asked if he could pray for "a hedge of protection" around Kennedy and his family.

Absolutely, Kennedy told the Lancaster pastor, who then prayed for close to a minute with the Massachusetts senator. ...