Your dad was right.
Everybody got along with Teddy? I think Mary Jo would have something to say about that. Nice guys don't leave women drowning in ponds.
Back in the 70s and 80s my dad had a sizable contracting business worldwide (we subbed from Brown and Root and Floor and MK and Bechtel..folks like that) which had a fair number of government funded jobs from pipelines (we specialized in river crossings) to feasibility studies to water and sewer plants and had to go meet with folks there and Lott, Cochran, Stennis, Whitten, and Sonny Montgomery were some of his contacts. We were from Mississippi where everybody knows everybody.
And they would all say how everybody like Teddy and thought he was trying to live up to his brother's ideals and that Kopechne was likely pregnant.
that sorta thing