The late Teddy Kennedy wrote in True Compass, a posthumous memoir that will be released this month, that he "made terrible decisions" regarding the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, in which young campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne was found drowned in his car, after he careened off a bridge.

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Tributes Wednesday poured in for Senator Ted Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts senator who died Tuesday night at 77 after battling brain cancer for a year.

"An important chapter in our history has come to an end," President Barack Obama, vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, said Wednesday. "Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States senator of our time."

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