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Shadow Beyond the Kennedy Accident
Ted's Political Future Dims
nB By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
A man who has been dealt so many tragic blows as Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy had taken before this summer de
serves to hope there will be some softening compassion in
the events that mark the remainder of his life.
But it is brutally plain now that there is to be almost no
compassion in the consequences for him which flow from
the events of July 18-19, when a young woman riding with
him drowned after he accidentally drove his car off an
awkward, unsafe bridge into a tiny tidal pond in Mas
sachusetts.
At least for the immediate future, those consequences
are sweeping. In the view of the most thoughtful, most
expert and most fair-minded political appraisers this
reporter knows, not only his presidential prospects, but his
role in the Senate and his general usefulness to the Dem
ocratic party have been deeply shadowed.
Though most of these appraisers tend to be cautious
about judging the longer future, they cannot see how
Kennedy can be helped by his subsequent statements or
any normally conceivable new revelations about the acci
dent and what followed it.
As everyone knows by this time, what cuts so deeply is
the puzzling aftermath: Why he and his friends failed to
seek help, why he waited so long to notify the police, why
his original statement to the police was so incomplete and
shakily founded.
That story appears to be crumbling steadily as evidence
grows that, even if injured, exhausted and stunned by the
new tragedy, he was always in touch with reality after it
occurred—and his friends had early knowledge of it.
Says one Democratic figure who knows Kennedy well:
“He just didn’t measure up . . . And so much time has
elapsed that it would be awfully hard to recoup now. What
was needed that night was good, solid judgment. He didn’t
show it, and he didn’t get it from anyone arourid him.”
Adds another appraiser:
“That was a crisis situation, and a man being considered
for president is supposed to be just a little bit different.”
It is this latter Democratic figure who believes that
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Sat. and Sun., July 20-27, 1969
NEA Washington Correspondent
Kennedy’s leadership role in the Senate, and hence the
whole Democratic position there, have been seriously
damaged.
This man explains his view:
“There has been new steel this year in (Senate majority
leader) Mike Mansfield’s backbone. Ted has been re
sponsible for a large part of it.
“But now the Senate itself is going to change. It is not
just a question of how others there will look at him but
how he will see himself. There could be a considerable
amount of psychic damage from this event.”
One veteran Democrat who is most careful about weigh
ing the future nevertheless fears that Kennedy’s response
to the accident will be a haunting thing, making him endur
ingly vulnerable to assault from his party adversaries and
the rival Republicans. Says he:
“You’ll never be able to put it to bed.”
AU the experts questioned agreed that the factor of
Kennedy’s judgmental behavior under severe pressure was
the key. They found that they themselves, many of their
friends sympathetic to Kennedy, and countless people be
yond the immediate political world linked the Massachu
setts accident with revived memory of another earlier
event:
The day at Harvard when a much younger Ted Kennedy
had a trusted friend take a Spanish examination in his
stead.
There were no harsh judges among those interviewed.
They see Ted Kennedy as cruelly buffeted by tragedy, as
doubting how he should respond to it even while often act
ing with great bravery.
Perhaps most pertinent of all, some of them believe that
he is frequently gripped by inner feelings of inadequacy,
and that these feelings unhappily have sometimes surfaced
when events have compelled him to cope with critical
pressures and his inescapable link to the largeness of the
demanding, relentless Kennedy legend.
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