Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most critical judgments of Kennedy's behavior in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne came from the nation's editorial writers and columnists. Many editorialists agreed with the Tulsa World, which wrote: "We can honestly feel for the Senator in his time of terrible anguish, but...
James Reston of the New York Times concluded that the real question "is not whether the voters of Massachusetts can live with the Senator's account of the tragedy, but whether he can." To Columnists Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden, the case was tragic "in the Shakespearean sense of...
∙ GEORGE McGOVERN. The South Dakota Senator seems considerably less than galvanic, but in his brief bid for the nomination last summer as a stand-in for Robert Kennedy, it was clear that he was gifted with more outspoken political courage than either Muskie or Ted Kennedy. (He was one...
In a national poll for TIME, Louis Harris found that a substantial majority of Americans interviewed (68%) feel that "it is unfair to be critical of the way Senator Kennedy reacted to the accident, because the same thing could have happened to anyone." By 58% to 30%, the public felt...
Much of the doubt is focused upon whether or not Kennedy was drunk at the time of the accident. The TIME-Har-ris poll showed that only 38% believe the Senator's claim that he "was not driving under the influence of alcohol"; 32% think that he was indeed...