President Barack Obama paid tribute to the “greatest legislator of our time” today, eulogising Edward Kennedy in front of hundreds of mourners.

SENATOR Edward Kennedy’s body was taken to Boston last night to lie in repose at his murdered brother’s presidential library for two days of public visits.

US Senator Edward Kennedy’s body will travel for at least two hours from his Cape Cod home to Boston, where it will lie in repose for two days before his funeral at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at Senator Edward Kennedy’s funeral, a White House source said, in a tribute to the last political elder of the family that fascinated Americans with its ambition, style, idealism and tragedies for decades.