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Ted Kennedy's Vietnam Plot. FBI Memo raises a troubling episode in the late Senator's career.
American Thinker ^ | 03/11/2011 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 03/11/2011 7:22:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: laconic

Perhaps so.
I wonder if people give too much credit to the idea that JFK would not have escalated the war. He was fervently anti-communist, and perhaps not the liberal that many would have us believe today. Being made a martyr early on makes it easy to assign whatever one wishes to him. I could say that his experience as a combat vet would have led him to use whatever means necessary to defeat the enemy. It seems pretty clear that he had withdrawal on his mind, but if push came to shove, would he have fought with such self-defeating Rules of Engagement? But it would be conjecture as well (though probably someone might run with it with not a shred of evidentiary support... I could start a rumor).

Hmmm - Bobby particularly ticked off LBJ in 67...


21 posted on 03/11/2011 8:50:56 AM PST by Apogee
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To: SeekAndFind
And Teddy was among one of the FIRST big names to endorse Obama!

Ted Kennedy endorsing Obama


22 posted on 03/11/2011 9:00:34 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: NTHockey
His maternal grandfather was the mayor of Boston. MA
Congressman James M. Curley got tired of the commute to DC,
so he decided he wanted to be mayor, but "HoneyFitz" didn't
want to step aside, so Curley announces that he was going to give
a series of morality lectures on sex outside of marriage, including
adultery. This being before the Roaring 20s, HoneyFitz decided
that he didn't need the spotlight on his mistress and himself, so he
announced that he would not run again.
23 posted on 03/11/2011 9:01:46 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: blueunicorn6

I wish Quayle were that quick-witted. Despite the fact that he was totally railroaded by the media in terms of his intelligence, and despite the fact that he was probably more intelligent than 50% (at least) of the US Senate, he just wasn’t that quick-witted.

And you know why? Because he had the instincts of a RINO. He didn’t always vote like a RINO but he had the instincts of a RINO. The instinct to go-along to get-along that so typified the GHW Bush White House, and an instinct that is death to quick-wittedness.


24 posted on 03/11/2011 9:13:59 AM PST by samtheman
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To: SeekAndFind
I would like to say that Bobby Kennedy had more character than Teddy Kennedy

Ha!

Teddy had Mary Jo and Bobby had Marilyn Monroe.
Two Kennedys, Two DEAD women.

Monroe's autopsy was a joke. One HUGH cover-up.

25 posted on 03/11/2011 9:15:04 AM PST by Condor51 (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Congressman. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain])
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To: SeekAndFind

Lauchlin Currie, FDR adviser and alleged Soviet agent.
Friends of democrats is not a good list.The Kennedy’s had only one rule it’s all about us and power.


26 posted on 03/11/2011 9:23:00 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

Ted Kennedy did not find anything, ANYTHING, including anything treasonous, as beneath him, when it came to trying to obstruct political opponents, particularly Presidential political opponents, whether Republican or Democrat.

Let’s not forget he even sent an emissary to Russia, to meet with the Soviet leaders, seeking some way they could work together to try to politically hurt President Reagan.

Forgive me G-d for somewhere in Massachusetts lies a grave for a man for whom I cannot say R.I.P.


27 posted on 03/11/2011 9:47:24 AM PST by Wuli
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


28 posted on 03/11/2011 11:18:36 AM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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