Ted Kennedy acknowledges he won't win 1980 Democratic nomination 02:14. On August 11, 1980 Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy approached a ballroom podium at New York's Waldorf-Astoria to acknowledge ...

By beating Ted Kennedy in 1980, Jon Keller says Jimmy Carter opened the door for Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas and John Kerry. Latest U.S.

On August 12, 1980, Ted Kennedy lost the Democratic Party's nomination to President Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention in New York City. read more. AP. Share.

Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts was trying to take the nomination from Carter in an open ... The argument facing Democrats now has echoes of 1980. Kennedy wanted to move the party left.

Soaring inflation and a domestic energy crisis further eroded his standing before Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts stepped forward to challenge him in the 1980 Democratic primaries.

In honor of the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, Bob Meek is circulating this quote from Kennedy’s 1980 Democratic convention speech (that was the year he sought the presidential nomination, but ...

Ted Kennedy made a campaign stop in 1980 at what is now the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ...

The following is Ted Kennedy‘s concession speech to Jimmy Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, New York City.. Thanks very much, Barbara Mikulski, for your ...

Now, Ted Kennedy's one run for president - the one time he actually ran in 1980, it was ill-timed and poorly prepared. But the opposite seems to have been true of his Senate career.

Blame 1980. And the problem with ... I was stunned by how often activists of a certain age would talk bitterly about the year when Ted Kennedy, then a 48-year-old senator from Massachusetts, ...

Revering Ted Kennedy ... But after the accident, after his humbling loss to Byrd and defeat at the hands of President Jimmy Carter in 1980, after a decade of skirt chasing ...

Obituary: Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009. ... His single run for the presidency in 1980 — when he challenged and then lost in the primaries to President Jimmy Carter — was a dismal failure.