Teddy Kennedy Makes Candid Confessions In New Memoir

Posted on Sep 03, 2009 @ 10:24AM

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The late Teddy Kennedy wrote in True Compass, a posthumous memoir that will be released this month, that he "made terrible decisions" regarding the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, in which young campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne was found drowned in his car, after he careened off a bridge.

Kennedy didn’t give any new insight into the incident, but he did call his behavior "inexcusable," and said the stress arising out of the incident likely shortened the life of his then-sick father, Joseph. Pundits point to the incident as the reason Teddy Kennedy was never a serious presidential candidate, as the New England native lost the nomination in 1980 to the incumbent, Jimmy Carter.

Other starling revelations in the forthcoming 532-page book include: his longtime battle with what he tabbed "self-destructive drinking;" his acceptance of the Warren Commission's findings in his brother John's assassination; said brother John "was increasingly convinced that the conflict (in Vietnam) could not be resolved militarily" and that he reassured then-Pres. Bill Clinton he would support him during the Monica Lewinsky fiasco.

The longtime Massachusetts senator died Aug. 25 at 77, after battling brain cancer for a year.

True Compass hits bookstores Sept. 14.

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One could only hope that he suffered from relentless sleepless nights throughout his life...

by scribbles
Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 3:25pm

ditto!

by d2riley
Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 11:08pm

Ted is responsible for her death. He went off that night and slept off his drunk. Then tried to get his cousin to take the blame. He let her die. She had enough air to live, went past guard shack & did not report it.

by barbs
Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 2:46pm

ONE WOMANIZING S****BAG TO ANOTHER: OF*COURSE*HE WOULD SUPPORT BILL CLINTON AND THE SEMEN-STAINED BLUE DRESS/MONICA LEWINSKY THING. PIG !!!!!!!!

by mrtree
Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 10:42am

HOW ABOUT THE "STRESS" TO THE KOPECHNE FAMILY. WHAT AN IDIOT . WHO CARES ABOUT TEDDY'S TYRANNICAL, MORALLY CORRUPT FATHER.

by mrtree
Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 10:40am

THAT S****BAG**ELUDED**JUSTICE BECAUSE OF THE KENNEDY NAME, INFLUENCE AND POWER. HE LEFT MARY JO KOPECHNE IN THAT CAR TO DIE ON THE NIGHT OF JULY 18 1969.

by mrtree
Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 10:38am