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In the midst of the covering the U.S. Embassy’s reopening in Havana, Cuba on Friday morning, MSNBC’s The Rundown couldn’t help but repeatedly ooze over the fact that Secretary of State John Kerry attended the ceremony using a walking cane that belonged to former President John F. Kennedy’s brother and former fellow Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy.
Gushing that it’s “a fascinating backstory,” NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell made the first mention just after 9:00 a.m. Eastern about Kerry using “Teddy Kennedy’s cane” that “was offered to him” by the Kennedy family in “such a great symbol, symbolic gesture and as we all know, the history of the Kennedy family, John F. Kennedy, and that's when relations were broken back in 1961.”