Dallas Escorts: Edward Kennedy, an example of disgrac…
They say no one’s as bad as the worst thing they’ve ever done. That will be unless you’re Teddy Kennedy and in 1969 you drove a car that went off a bridge in Martha’s Vineyard, killing your companion, Mary Jo Kopechne.
His negligence put paid to his presidential hopes and Kennedy, then in his mid-30s, called his own actions “indefensible”.
But in the 40 years after the tragedy, Kennedy did more than anyone else to promote the civil rights, health and economic wellbeing of American people. President Barack Obama called him the “greatest senator of our time”.
Another politician went through his own baptism of fire a little earlier. John Profumo was Britain’s War Secretary in 1963 when it emerged he had been embroiled in an affair with Christine Keeler, a callgirl also enjoying the attentions of a Soviet attache.