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Patrick Leahy: “We had a former longest serving member of this committee, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was eight or nine or ten times…”

On the recordSeptember 22, 2009
We had a former longest serving member of this committee, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was eight or nine or ten times refused to go on one of the, an airplane or a flight he had been taking for 40 years back to Boston because he somehow is named on one of these lists.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy recounts Ted Kennedy's experience with government watchlists affecting travel.

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