Bill Clinton, Kissinger Among Those Present At Schlesinger Jr. Memorial

Bill Clinton, Kissinger Among Those Present At Schlesinger Jr. Memorial

Above a Manhattan stage where Abraham Lincoln once spoke, a blowup photo of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. smiled down Monday like a blessing upon his own memorial.

"Arthur was a beloved friend for decades who wrote history with unsurpassed eloquence, and shaped history with unsurpassed wisdom and scholarship," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said of Schlesinger, the Pulitzer Prize winner, liberal activist and Kennedy ally who died Feb. 28 at age 89.

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