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...House Judiciary Committee. Even if indicted, he probably would have fought fiercely to seek an acquittal rather than plea-bargain, Agnew-style. Indeed, Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson offered a cutting observation last week. "Why were we ever stupid enough to think that this awful man would fade away like one of MacArthur's old soldiers?" he asked. "He was always going to be dragged kicking and screaming into oblivion...
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...
Kennedy supporters argue that he was the most damaged of all Democrats while Watergate was in full and odious bloom, since the sins of Nixon and his men called attention to Kennedy's own clinging scandal- Chappaquiddick. But, they continue, as Nixon's scandal fades, Kennedy's will fade with...
...seems likelier for the opposite to take place, however. With Ford as a Mr. Clean in the White House, Republicans have no reason to allow Chappaquiddick to fade into obscurity-"Nobody drowned in Watergate," says one nasty bumper sticker. Even many Democrats question the wisdom of electing another morally tarnished candidate to the presidency just after getting rid of Nixon. As Reporter Robert Sherrill recently showed in a devastating New York Times Magazine article, there remain many unanswered questions about the Chappaquiddick incident, including Kennedy's public explanation of it, that are bound to haunt a Kennedy...
...through which some elusive goal, some beckoning fortune is pursued. The highway is a slender thread between a worn past and an alluring future. And after a while, after enough stops along the way, the endpoints of past and future, of Detroit and New Orleans and Seattle and Baltimore, fade away, and the unfolding of the road itself becomes the important event. And so, perhaps it is only while traveling, in a state of flux and transition, that the American finds his identity, a fleeting identity which is all present and which dissolves as soon as it is constructed...