Word: chappaquiddick
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...their screens above the words WHO WILL JUDGE THE JUDGE? The follow-up question -- "How many of these liberal Democrats could themselves pass ethical scrutiny?" -- was hardly necessary, since the faces were those of Edward Kennedy, Joseph Biden and Alan Cranston, all scarred veterans of highly publicized scandals, from Chappaquiddick to plagiarized speeches to the Keating Five...
This strategy was so successful that Senator Edward Kennedy managed to keep his seat in Congress and even run a plausible campaign for the presidency after Chappaquiddick. The Kennedy approach is at work again in the investigation by Palm Beach police into charges that William Kennedy Smith raped a young woman on the grounds of the Kennedy estate during Easter weekend...
...been for alcohol, Chappaquiddick almost surely would never have happened: Ted Kennedy, that is, would not have driven off the Dike Bridge on Martha's Vineyard in the middle of one night in the summer of 1969, drowning a young campaign worker named Mary Jo Kopechne...
...Without Chappaquiddick, Teddy Kennedy would naturally have taken his place as leader of the Democratic Party, succeeding his assassinated brothers...
...police handling of the case brings to mind the botched investigation of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, when the Senator did not notify the police until 10 hours later that he had driven off the bridge. The first reports about the case were inaccurate, yet the police did not provide an accurate one. By the end of the week, police still had not questioned any of the Kennedys. Nor did they interrogate bartenders, parking-lot attendants or other potential witnesses until a week after the alleged crime. They delayed naming a suspect until Friday because, they said...