Katie Couric spent nearly ninety minutes interviewing Vicki Kennedy and son Ted Kennedy Jr. in what appeared to be a sold out auditorium. Vicki and Ted Jr. spoke about the late Senator and reflected on his personal as well as public life and legacy. Sen Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate for forty-seven years, and has been called the greatest and most influential senator in history. In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia for an oral history project about his life. Drawing from fifty years of contemporaneous notes from his personal diaries, he wrote his best-selling memoir, True Compass, a New York Times bestseller.