Nation: 'New Solutions Must Be Found''

Although he has not quite announced his presidential candidacy, Senator Edward Kennedy has already completely changed the political equation for 1980. TIME National Political Correspondent John Stacks interviewed Kennedy last week about his decision. His report:

The walls of Ted Kennedy's high-ceilinged office are crowded with the framed memories of his family's glory and its burdens: Jack with Bobby, Jack and Bobby with a thin, young Teddy, Joe and Rose. The children from all the families. An affectionate note from his mother correcting his grammar.

For more than a decade, Ted Kennedy has sat...

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