Word: chappaquiddick
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...challenges to his account of Chappaquiddick...
When Senator Edward Kennedy began his presidential campaign, he was encouraged by polls to believe that his conduct a decade ago at Chappaquiddick Island would not be an important issue. He knew that a significant number of voters would never fully trust his account of what happened on the night of July 18-19, 1969, when his car careered off narrow Dike Bridge and Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. But he thought that voters would at least believe his assertion that there was nothing more to be said about the accident and finally turn their attention to more topical questions...
...Chappaquiddick has turned out to be the Campaign Issue That Will Not go Away. The Senator himself revived interest in the tragedy with his hesitant answers to questions about it posed by Roger Mudd during the now celebrated CBS interview in November. Last week separate stories in the Washington Star, Reader's Digest and New York Post fanned a new controversy at a critical time: just before the Jan. 21 Democratic caucuses in Iowa that began the process of selecting delegates to the presidential nominating convention in August...
...died soon after she and Kennedy had left a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick, where he had thrown a party for eleven aides-five men and six women. Kennedy later claimed that he and Kopechne were driving back to their separate hotels in Edgartown, the main town on Martha's Vineyard, when he made a wrong turn and headed east down a dirt road to Dike Bridge. After the accident, Kennedy said, he managed to struggle out of the submerged car. As his story goes, after several dives in an attempt to save Kopechne, he walked back to the cottage...
...Kennedy may have Chappaquiddick hanging over him, but Jimmy Carter has inflation, unemployment, lack of leadership and Brother Billy hanging over his head. The Republicans have the constant reminder of Watergate. I'll take my chances with Ted and Camelot...