John Kerry receives award from Edward Kennedy Institute

FILE- In this June 2, 2006, file photo, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, talks with U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., after Kennedy accepted his party’s nomination during the state’s Democratic Convention in Worcester, Mass. Kerry has been named the first recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston. The former Democratic presidential nominee, secretary of state and U.S. senator was honored Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, at a dinner attended by Kennedy’s widow. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)