President Obama recalled Edward M. Kennedy(the Lion of the Senate)’s powerful ability to forge compromise. Senator John McCain remembered arguing with him on the Senate floor, after which the Democrat warmly put his arm around him. And Elizabeth Warren spoke about her first meeting with the liberal lion, and how it changed her life.

Obama and a parade of other top officials, Democrat and Republican, descended on Dorchester Monday to dedicate the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. They paid tribute to Kennedy’s personal touch and ability to build coalitions in the chamber he loved, and they offered hope the future might be more like the past they fondly recalled.Boston Globe