Word: chappaquiddick
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...announcement also spared the nation-and Teddy-a prolonged controversy over Chappaquiddick, a lingering but explosive issue that, politically, was probably the chief reason why Kennedy withdrew. There remain many unanswered questions about the 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Kennedy's car; Watergate revived them as a challenge to the Senator's moral fitness and the evenhandedness of the press. The problem was expressed in nasty bumper stickers: NOBODY DROWNED AT WATERGATE. The fact that several publications had renewed investigations into Chappaquiddick may well have affected the tuning of Kennedy's announcement (see story page...
Though Kennedy was likely to gain the nomination if he reached for it and was perhaps better suited than anybody else to unify the Democrats' left and right wings, Chappaquiddick made it questionable that he would defeat Gerald Ford in 1976-unless the President stumbled badly, particularly in handling the economy. Already, some of the Kennedy allure had been lost; several Democratic candidates had suggested that they did not want Kennedy's campaign help this year. Said Monte Pascoe, Colorado state Democratic chairman, about Kennedy's withdrawal: "It was a healthy thing for the party...
From a sailboat offshore, two men and a woman swam to the beach on Chappaquiddick Island one recent afternoon. Some startled fishermen-and Edgartown Police Chief Jessie J. Oliver III-recognized one of the trio as Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Two days before he was to announce his withdrawal as a candidate for President in 1976, there was Kennedy walking meditatively on the island where his White House hopes foundered five years...
...want to see for yourself, the Chappaquiddick Bridge still stands, though splintered by souvenir hunters. And if Society is your society, there's a staid yacht club, host to 51 regattas so far and an appropriate number of regatta balls...
Those Kennedy supporters who believe that Chappaquiddick will fade from memory as the Nixon scandal fades had better do some fast re-evaluating. Here's one voter who will demand all the facts concerning that cover-up the moment Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President. Any other candidates, particularly Democrats, had better be damned certain they've looked through all their closets lest there be a skeleton lurking there...