quote Had Mary Jo survived, she would have been comforted by the Senator's efforts to preserve Social security... /quote
No, had Mary Jo survived, ole Teddy would have been a shoe-in for Prez. The MSM would have spun the accident and his saving of the girl to turn him into the hero of the hour. The sex party they had been to would have been called a conference or meeting of some kind and Teddy, Mary Jo's savior, would have ridden the notoriety right into the oval office. Good thing for us that he didn't have any more sense then than he does now, and only thought about his own survival. If he had had any smarts at all, he would have known that if he had rescued her, he could have sold himself to the American public as her "knight in shining armor". Instead, old me-first is a stinkin' footnote in presidential history, and I for one am glad of it.
Here's an interesting observation I read on another forum. Had Ted Kennedy's older brother survived WWII, he and JFK would both have probably had a good chance at the presidency, bringing to fruition Joe Sr's desire for a political dynasty, and Teddy would just have been another drunk, rich, womanizing fat old bastard.