Word: chappaquiddick
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Even the example of a Pi Eta Mr. Grant offers is questionable. Was Ted Kennedy "maximizing his pleasure" at Chappaquiddick...
There is no doubt that Kennedy is concerned about his children. The 1980 campaign, which raised the dual specters of assassination and the 1969 drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, was, as one family friend said, "torture and torment for those kids." Such ghosts would be certain to haunt a 1984 presidential campaign. Patrick, who suffers from asthma, was so worried about his father's safety during the 1980 campaign that Kennedy called him daily...
...door in the Watergate complex in Washington. He called the police, and thereby began the destruction of Richard Nixon's presidency. The survivors of Watergate will not be holding reunions. No one died at Watergate, of course, as the bumper stickers say-meaning, rather heavily, that Chappaquiddick was worse. But 25 people went to jail, and Nixon became the first President in Amen can history to leave the White House one step ahead of impeachment...
...Kennedy's long nosedive through the 1980 Democratic primaries. The man who could not possibly lose to Jimmy Carter did so spectacularly. Plenty of explanations surfaced. The candidate ran halfheartedly, bowing to sense of duty rather than conviction; new austerities left voters impatient with free-spending liberal promises; Chappaquiddick would not go away; the hostages in Iran kept Carter safely off the hustings and out of Teddy's range. But Wills suspected that something more metaphysical was afoot. The Senator was not undone by ineptitude and adverse circumstances; his last name, with all that it had come...
Adopting the slogan, "A Fat Man for Lean Times," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 kicks off his reelection campaign. Several advisers privately recommend that he not announce his candidacy from the bridge at Chappaquiddick. "Nonsense," Ted replies. "It will get lots of publicity...