Word: chappaquiddick
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Armed with a good legal team, a little luck and the deference accorded a dynasty, the Kennedy family has generally finessed its transgressions. The public has never learned the full story of what happened when Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick, when David Kennedy died of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach hotel, or when Joe Kennedy's jeep overturned on Nantucket and crippled a young girl for life. Last week, as the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith began in West Palm Beach with interviews of prospective jurors, the Kennedy family could count...
...request, motion or unanswered question from the Kennedy camp. When she learned that Smith had at one point retained Washington attorney Herbert J. Miller, she demanded that Miller be ousted and waved a book that described his role as Kennedy's counsel in the purported cover-up of the Chappaquiddick affair. "She knows her arguments, your argument and a few arguments nobody mentions," says Bludworth. Most of all, she is not afraid to make a move that skirts the ethical edge: last July, as detectives working for Smith spread negative publicity about the alleged victim, she filed documents saying that...
...hearings. He's the one who asked Anita Hill the brilliant questions about a hypothetical situation, and then asked Hill if she would have remembered a situation like that had it actually happened. He is also the senator who chided Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) about Chappaquiddick during the final floor speeches of the confirmation debate...
...nephew barhopping on a night that ended in an accusation of rape -- is not the ideal person to sit in judgment of someone else's sexual manners. The man who waited 10 hours before reporting that a young female staff member was drowned in his car at Chappaquiddick, and stonewalled for much of the subsequent investigation, must have wanted to avoid the moment that faced him last Tuesday when the situation required a public statement on Hill's allegation: "The Senate cannot sweep it under the rug, or pretend that it is not staring us in the face." Other members...
Imagine giving a group of guys that includes Ted (Chappaquiddick, Palm Beach) Kennedy a case of alleged sexual harassment to review. I have the greatest respect for Kennedy's stalwart liberalism and even for a few of his fellows on the Senate Judiciary Committee, but isn't this a little like asking Michael Milken to monitor the SEC? The Senators, after all, occupy a world where women figure less as friends and colleagues than as dangerous, Donna & Rice-like characters, capable of decimating a man's career. In the locker rooms of the U.S. Senate, it's the male...