Cohen: What John Try could learn from Nixon and Ted Kennedy
It’s political theatre — a declaration of innocence, a denial of wrongdoing , a disclosure of his financial holdings, an attack on the Democrats. Its strength, though, is its unabashed mawkishness.
Sen. Kennedy of Massachusetts faced a different test of self-preservation when he was in an automobile accident on the island of Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts. Mary Jo Kopechne, a former Kennedy campaign worker, drowned in the accident. Invoking his brother, John F. Kennedy, he hoped “to have the courage to make the right decision.” A sympathetic politicianLike Nixon, Kennedy appealed to the public to save him. And like with Nixon, they did. A flood of telegrams persuaded him to stay on, which was surely his expectation.
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