The Kennedy mystique lives on

"No other American family has taken on such an almost cult-like significance," writes the liberal daily Mladá Fronta Dnes on the death of Edward Kennedy. "The Bush family gave us two presidents, but who will remember them in 15 years? The Kennedy myth, by contrast, will never fade. It will be part of America, like the stars in the Stars and Stripes. ... People say that one advantage of the Kennedys was that they died young, that they gave us ideas and inspiration but didn't have to put them into practice. Edward showed that [his two brothers] John and Robert could have done just that. The dynasty has come to an end, but the mystique of the word Kennedy lives on."

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