Tag: Edward M. Kennedy

  • Nation & World

    Watergate through a Harvard lens

    Many important players in the Watergate saga had Harvard connections.

    3 minutes
    Senate Select Committee on Watergate.
  • Nation & World

    Inquiring minds

    Peter Hart, one of the nation’s leading opinion pollsters, gave students at Harvard Kennedy School a lesson in the art of asking questions and probing answers.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

    Speakers at a Harvard School of Public Health conference on smoking hailed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s work to give the Food and Drug Administration new regulatory power over tobacco products and said, if wielded properly, it could prove a key weapon for better health.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Faust presents Kennedy with honorary degree

    President Drew G. Faust recalls decades of accomplishments in the life of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. In one of his final public appearances before his death in August 2009, Faust confers upon Kennedy the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

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  • Nation & World

    Sen. Edward Kennedy to receive honorary degree at December convocation

    Sen. Edward Kennedy will receive an honorary degree from Harvard on Dec. 1 in a special convocation at Sanders Theatre. The honor is in recognition of Kennedy’s lifelong commitment to public service and his tireless efforts as a champion for a range of social issues including health care, civil rights, labor, employment, the environment, and…

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