The "Odd Couple": The Unlikely Friendship of Senators Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy

05/12/22 • 18 min

Orrin Hatch was the longest-serving Republican in U.S. Senate history.

But his legacy was more than longevity.

Orrin Hatch was close friends with Ted Kennedy...

The Kennedy-Hatch bipartisan friendship ... The Odd Couple, as Senator Hatch called it ... That's the part of Orrin Hatch's Senate legacy we'll explore in this episode of C-SPAN's "The Weekly"

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Orrin Hatch was the longest-serving Republican in U.S. Senate history.

But his legacy was more than longevity.

Orrin Hatch was close friends with Ted Kennedy...

The Kennedy-Hatch bipartisan friendship ... The Odd Couple, as Senator Hatch called it ... That's the part of Orrin Hatch's Senate legacy we'll explore in this episode of C-SPAN's "The Weekly"

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