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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For nearly two years Joan has been struggling alone to recover. Early in 1978 she moved to a spacious apartment in Boston's Back Bay, devoid of political memorabilia but graced by a Steinway baby grand. It is, she told her children, "Mommy's apartment, not Daddy'...
"Irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable." That was Ted Kennedy's own assessment of his behavior ten years ago at Chappaquiddick Island after the automobile accident in which Mary Jo Kopechne died.
Ever since, he has been burdened by the events of that night. It was the chief issue that kept Kennedy out of the 1972 presidential race and that caused him to abandon plans to run in 1976. Now Chappaquiddick is again an issue, and one that is already being used...
In the transcript of a conversation in the Oval Office, Richard Nixon comes off as alternately aggressive and defensive, attacking the Democrats and then justifying his own campaign tactics. Just another snippet of dialogue from the White House tapes that unwound Nixon's presidency? No, the conversation was taped...
Indeed, the Three Mile Island accident has prompted some finger pointing that nonetheless indicates salutary soul searching. Says the NRC, in a report of its own: ''Everyone connected with nuclear power technology must accept as a fact that accidents can happen. Operations personnel in particular must not have...