The “swimmer” benefitted from three factors in his favor for conduct that would have driven anyone else from office: first, the nation was transfixed by the Apollo moon landing, which his brother had strongly supported: 2) his brother RFK had been assassinated only a year earlier; and 3) too many people in Massachusetts at that time voted their perceived ethnicity and not their core beliefs or their interests. All this has changed now, but we still have a Lion of the Senate Institute and library funded by taxpayers with $ 38 million earmarked for this obscenity in our money as basically a memorial in MA (of course it was supposed to be entirely paid for with private contributions). John Fund notes that at the time it received these federal funds, the “Senate” was turning down a badly needed allocation of less money for our military (”can’t afford it”). The Ted Kennedy Institute also received $ 8 million in Mass. state taxpayer funding and charges $ 16 admission which is $ 16 more than I would ever pay. It is basically a shrine, a “presidential” library for one who was not president, with no mention of Chappaquiddick. What dolts we have in the Republican controlled Senate.
What grabbed the headlines of the time was the moon landing. Ted’s dirty deed happened on the Friday evening, July 18, 1969. By the time it was becoming public, July 20, man had landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong was taking the first step.
However, that does not cover all the scheming of the elites and the media to cover for Ted. Who would have taken Ted’s spot if he had quit, resigned or gone through a trial??
I read the book “Senatorial Privilege” recently.
In most events, there is at least one person who, no matter the odds, tries to do the right thing.
The only one who even came close was the local cop who stuck to his story about when he saw Kennedy drive by.
The rest were just covering for Kennedy. The description of him on the bridge wailing “why did this have to happen to me” while others were in the water trying to effect a rescue will certainly lower your opinion, if there is any room left to lower it.