[elizabethgrace]

Tell me, will his book be available in audio?

[VRWC For Truth]

Fiction - A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact

Lyin King indeed.

[Electric Graffiti]

[Reagan Man]

Lying sack of crap!

[normanpubbie]

I'll probably receive flames higher than the LA fires, but --

Was he just giving her a ride home? Maybe. Did he expect to get lucky with her? Probably. Was he unfaithful to his first wife Joan? Sure. These simply prove that his personal conduct was sleazy, which comes as a surprise to no one.

But the terrible thing Teddy did was to leave Mary Jo to drown and then to try to cover it up later, for which he received a slap on the wrist. Criticizing him for this is eminently fair. For an affair that some allege without evidence, unfair.

[Maine Mariner]

I clearly remember Mary Jo’s mother shortly after the accident talk about the fact that her daughter had a boy friend. She gave the impression that their friendship was leading to an engagement.

Does anyone remember the boy friend ever coming forward and talking about Mary Jo?

[festusbanjo]

He had about as much honest regret as Clinton had about Monica. There was never contrition, only disappointment at having gotten caught. In Ted’s delusonal mind, this prevented him from becoming president and it was something that he couldn’t blame on anyone else.

[TheConservativeParty]

“he could never escape the dispair” about the accident. Hmm, seems if he were really sorry about it, he’d not have waited overnight to tell someone, or better yet, he’d have saved her himself. It’s between him and God now. I trust completely that justice has been done.

[reagan_fanatic]

Kennedy, then 37, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and got a suspended sentence and probation.

A travesty, and something only a privledged, spoiled brat of a wealthy, corrupt democratic clan could get out of.

[TopQuark]

Of course he was not involved: he was GOING to be involved when he was taking that lady across the bridge to a secluded beach late in the evening. An “unfortunate” drowning of the lady prevented, of course, that relationship from blossoming further.

[bannie]

That dead old dog just insists on getting in the last word.

Well, if he “made his peace” with God...only to throw in a bucket of lies at the end...It’d suck to be him!

[Tublecane]

“and that he never escaped the despair he felt after she died in the 1969 car crash that has been seared into the national consciousness as ‘Chappaquiddick.’”

Not enough to shy away from public life, or to get behind the anti-drunk driving movement, or not to run for president or anything. But he never escaped it nonetheless.

[LucyJo]

It’s interesting that his memoir is being published posthumously. People with much less fame and place in history have written memoirs much earlier in their lives.

I wonder how long this one had been in the works, or if he had begun writing it before he learned of his brain tumor?

[goldfinch]

I don’t think Ted and Mary Jo had an big time affair. I do think Ted was hoping to get lucky when he left the party with her and headed for the beach...