Word: chappaquiddick
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Koch, a perennial Post favorite, led the charge against Kennedy. Saying that the Senator's action revealed a "character flaw," the mayor added in a veiled reference to Chappaquiddick, "In the dead of night, and then by the way not to immediately own up to it. We've seen that before...
...quip by New York's then Governor, Nelson Rockefeller, to the effect that the Democratic presidential slate ought to pair Ted Kennedy with Thomas Eagleton, one implicated in the Chappaquiddick drowning and the other known to have undergone electroshock therapy. Rockefeller dubbed the duo "waterproof and shockproof...
Other changes have made journalists more willing to broach such previously unmentionable subjects. A succession of public scandals involving politicians in the '60s and '70s (including Senator Edward Kennedy's car accident at Chappaquiddick, which resulted in the death of a female companion, and Representative Wilbur Mills' drunken shenanigans at the Tidal Basin with a former stripper) brought the issue of womanizing to the forefront. With the breakdown of sexual taboos in the 1960s, public discussion of such topics became more acceptable. At the same time, with the changing status of women, society has grown less tolerant of the macho...
...powerful voice and divisive force in presidential politics for nearly 15 years. Each campaign season, the Massachusetts Senator has been chalked up as the front runner for the Democratic nomination that his brother John won and Robert sought. But burdened by family responsibilities and the lingering scandal of Chappaquiddick, Kennedy spurned the challenge in 1972, 1976 and 1984. When he did summon the will to run in 1980, he performed dismally and was trounced by the incumbent President Jimmy Carter...
Joan Kennedy was once the nation's leading candidate for Wronged Woman of the Year. Long-suffering, she stood by her husband during the dark hours of Chappaquiddick. Although her marriage was deteriorating, she loyally stumped for Teddy during the 1980 primaries. It was not easy to stop being a Kennedy: the family exerted a powerful gravitational force...