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Obama invokes Kennedy in health care call for action

President Barack Obama delivers a speech on health

Photo credit: AP | President Barack Obama delivers a speech on health care to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night. (Sept. 9, 2009)

President Barack Obama invoked the spirit of Sen. Edward Kennedy in his plea to Congress to pass sweeping health care reform, asking that the Massachusetts Democrat's life's work be completed after his death.

PHOTOS: President Obama delivers health care speech

Obama quoted from a letter he received from Kennedy after his death last month.

" 'What we face,' he wrote, 'is above all...

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