Now that Ted is gone, has Vicki Kennedy’s time come?

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The Boston Herald Account

By Inside Track
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - Added 54m ago

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In 1992, when then-60-year-old Ted Kennedy made the surprise announcement that he would wed 38-year-old Washington lawyer Victoria Reggie, cynics dismissed it as an obvious PR ploy to shore up his political standing in the wake of the Palm Beach rape scandal.

But in the intervening years, the former single mom from Louisiana righted the senator’s personal life, superbly executed the role of political wife and became the senator’s strongest ally and best friend.

And when Kennedy took on the toughest fight of his life - his battle with brain cancer - Vicki was there to nurse him, comfort him and take the reins inside his senate office when Kennedy became too ill to function.

Now that the senior senator is gone, the focus is on his widow and whether she will seek to fill her husband’s seat in the short - or long - term.

Although Vicki has sent the message that she is not interested in being either appointed or elected to the Senate, political observers believe that that may not be the final word.

“I have a hard time believing that there is not some sort of plan for a Kennedy to carry on the torch,” said one political insider. “It’s going to be either Joe (Kennedy) or Vicki - and if it’s not either one, I’d be totally shocked.”

Momentum is building on Beacon Hill to accommodate Kennedy’s dying wish - a change in state law that would allow Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint someone to fill his seat until a special election can be called.

The request was seen as a play by the Kennedy people to have a hand-picked successor installed to carry on the late senator’s work. Speculation has centered on Vicki, who, we are told, ran the day-to-day operation of her husband’s office - in conjunction with longtime staffers - after Kennedy became too ill to do it himself.

Victoria Reggie was an unknown D.C. lawyer when Kennedy’s office made the surprise announcement 17 years ago that she and the senator were engaged. The betrothal came on the heels of Kennedy’s infamous “apology speech” at the Kennedy School of Government - a mea culpa he gave following a night of carousing that led to sensational rape allegations against his nephew, William Kennedy Smith .

Most Washington insiders didn’t even know the two had been dating. But friends of the senator insisted that the romance was the real thing - not a savvy political ploy to quash the Palm Beach scandal and Kennedy’s rep as a womanizer.

“He’s absolutely crazy about her,” Kennedy’s attorney Gregory Craig said at the time. “I can tell by the way he is with her when she’s around. It’s as if there’s no one else in the room . . . It’s quite clear that this is a very special relationship and that she is a very special person to him.”

Vicki, the daughter of longtime Kennedy crony Judge Edmund M. Reggie, was a partner in a Washington law firm who had two children by an earlier marriage. She was divorced in 1990 and Kennedy had divorced his first wife, Joan, in 1982 after his unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

“I love Vicki and her children very much,” Kennedy said at the time. “She has brought enormous happiness into my life.”

Now Vicki must decide whether she will step out of her husband’s shadow to try to take the torch that he’s passed - and if she’s willing to let the voters have the final say on whether the pigeon-toed girl from Louisiana is the new keeper of the Kennedy flame.