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Madhuri Dey
According to the sources, US President Barack Obama who was reportedly close to the late US Senator Edward Kennedy, will be delivering a eulogy at the funeral mass of the Senator.

The White House officials said that the US president will deliver a eulogy at the mass funeral of Senator Kennedy who died late on Tuesday night after reportedly succumbing to a brain tumor. The Senator who was 77 years old at the time of his death, would be buried at the Arlington National Cemetery along the graveside of his brothers Robert and John F. Kennedy.

Obama, who had earlier billed Edward Kennedy as “the greatest United States Senators of our time” had reportedly issued a proclamation according to which the US flag shall be hoisted at half-staff till the 30th of this month. “Senator Edward M Kennedy was not only one of the greatest Senators of our time but one of the most accomplished Americans,” Obama said in his statement. “In the United States Senate, I can think of no one ho gendered greater respect or affection from both the members of the aisle,” said Obama in an e mail that was sent to his followers. An editorial released in New York Times says, “Kennedy, a master legislator of the modern Senate, insisted that politics be grasped through the prism of human needs.”

Obama had earlier stated that he was “heart broken” when he heard that the US Senator is no more. The eulogy will be delivered on Saturday, during the funeral of Edward Kennedy.