WASHINGTON - (June 26) - With Barack Obama's bid for the White House, the torch has been passed to a new generation in more ways than one: For the first time, the best-known Kennedy on the presidential campaign trail is named Caroline.
As Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the nation's most famous Democratic family, battles brain cancer out of the public eye, his niece is emerging as a political player in her own right. With a role in Barack Obama's campaign, Caroline Kennedy is making an unprecedented foray into the political arena that's remarkable even to friends and colleagues. "It's a different frontier that she's crossed," said one. "I've never seen her so interested and excited,"
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