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...essential that our leaders be equipped with the quality of stability, a trait the Senator has clearly demonstrated he does not possess. Following the tragic event on Martha's Vineyard, Senator Kennedy demonstrated his inability to act with clarity of mind in the face of personal crisis. The legal advice at his elbow was not worthy of that respected profession. It worries me that this young man would be no better advised when the safety of my fellow Americans is involved. The grief that has plagued the Kennedy family is sorely regretted, but in the interests of our national...
...There is even more reason to doubt Kennedy's explanation for his dangerous swim from Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard after the accident. Though regular ferry service stops at midnight, a 100 phone call from the Chappaquiddick dock will bring the ferry out at any time in response to any kind of emergency. A sign is visible for anyone to see, and the cost is only slightly higher than during regular hours (500 per passenger v. 150). "We come out after midnight for any legitimate reason," says Gared Grant, the ferry operator. "It doesn't have...
...times in an effort to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne, that he returned later with Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan in an effort to reach the girl. By a plurality of 44% to 31%, those interviewed also accept his statement that he impulsively swam from Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard...
...their troubles. There is no question that they are frequently separated. On one journey alone last summer, he was seen in the company of another lovely blonde on Aristotle Onassis' yacht. Such incidents might be recounted about innumerable people in Washington and elsewhere; it is only the Martha's Vineyard tragedy that suddenly makes them seem pertinent...
Mary Jo had been looking forward to the weekend on Martha's Vineyard. It meant seeing her old friends from the Boiler Room, perhaps playing some nostalgic games of touch football and having yet another chance to root for a Kennedy. She had never worked directly for Ted Kennedy. In fact, some of her friends remember that, in comparison with his brothers, Ted Kennedy was not an idol to Mary Jo Kopechne...