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...polls to believe that his conduct a decade ago at Chappaquiddick Island would not be an important issue. He knew that a significant number of voters would never fully trust his account of what happened on the night of July 18-19, 1969, when his car careered off narrow Dike Bridge and Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. But he thought that voters would at least believe his assertion that there was nothing more to be said about the accident and finally turn their attention to more topical questions...
...thrown a party for eleven aides-five men and six women. Kennedy later claimed that he and Kopechne were driving back to their separate hotels in Edgartown, the main town on Martha's Vineyard, when he made a wrong turn and headed east down a dirt road to Dike Bridge. After the accident, Kennedy said, he managed to struggle out of the submerged car. As his story goes, after several dives in an attempt to save Kopechne, he walked back to the cottage to summon two close aides, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham. They returned with...
...Kopechne, 28, left in his black Oldsmobile sedan. He claimed later that they intended to return to their separate hotels in Edgartown for the night. However, he headed in the opposite direction, toward a deserted beach. He drove down a bumpy dirt road and plunged off narrow, humpbacked Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond. Kennedy managed to extricate himself from the car, which lay upside down in about six feet of water; Kopechne...
Kahn gamely announced that the Administration would appeal the ruling, but meanwhile the White House lacks any credible inflation policy. Said Kahn: "We've got our hands in the dike, and the problems are overflowing anyway...
...little support for his vacillating policies, particularly in California. Reported TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers: "There is a feeling that Jerry Brown forced Carter's hand. Brown comes out as an activist fighting for his state and Carter as the boy with his finger in the dike...