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Before either of them reached the U.S. Senate, John Warner and Ted Kennedy crossed swords.
Warner, a Virginia Republican who retired from the Senate in 2008, was an advance man for Richard Nixon in Nixon's losing campaign against John Kennedy for the presidency in 1960. Kennedy's brother Robert was the Democrat's chief adviser.
"Bobby used to bring Teddy on some of the trips," Warner recalled Wednesday. "That campaign was hand-to-hand combat. That's when Teddy got some of his early lessons."
The two clashed again in 1974 when Warner, who by then was secretary of the Navy, decided to close the Boston Naval Shipyard.
"Well, Ted Kennedy and the other Northeast senators hauled me up before the Senate and really took me on," Warner said. "But I held my ground. So we got off to a rocky start.
"But then for 30 years on the Armed Services Committee, we were close working partners because we both loved the Navy."
Depending on which party was in power, Warner and Kennedy traded the gavel as chairman of the panel's sea-power subcommittee.
"He was always a good solid vote for the men and women of the armed forces and their families," Warner said. "I could count on that."
Bill Sizemore, (757) 446-2276, bill.sizemore@pilotonline.com
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kennedy horrors to include the monster marriage
I just can't believe he and they got away with it.
The cost too.
SOME MORE
6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party
on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. At
about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys
to his Oldsmobile limousine and offered to give a
ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker.
Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail,
Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and
into Poucha Pond. He swam to shore and walked
back to the party passing several houses and a
fire station. Two friends then returned with him to
the scene of the accident. According to their later
testimony, they told him what he already knew - that
he was required by law to immediately report the accident
to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his
way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to
sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning
and by then the wreck had already
been discovered. Before dying Kopechne had
scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in
the upside-down car.
The Kennedy family began "calling
in favors", ensuring that any inquiry would be
contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-
state to her family before an autopsy could
be conducted. Further details are uncert
i have a suggestion
Since you seem to be on a roll how about providing us with all the wonderful qualities of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove?
A LITTLE ABOUT TED
The Last of The Kennedy Dynasty...???
As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the
immediate attempt at the "canonization" of
old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media.
They are saying what a "great American" he
is.. I say, let's get a couple things clear
& not twist the facts to change the real
history.
1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended
it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test,
and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.
2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army,
but mistakenly signed up for four years instead
of two. Oops! The man can't count to four!
His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador
to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada
during prohibition),
pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and
to
ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was
raging. No preferential treatment for him! (like
he charged that President Bush received).
3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris , never advanced
beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon
being discharged. Imagine a person o
Kennedy was loved by his colleagues, Republican or Dem.
Ted was friends with everyone in the Senate; especially those in the Republican party who had expected to dislike him. A letter on the wall from Sen. Trent Lott, R, MS, talks about how if onlt the people knew Kennedy the way his fellow Senators did, the public love for Kennedy would have been much stronger. Others like Sen. Lindsey Graham and President George Bush counted Ted Kennedy as a true friend. Yes, even George Bush. There is a lesson here about transcending partisan politics that we always seem to forget.
Certainly....
You must be joking! He was one of the most divisively partisan politicians this country has ever seen. Ever! May he rest in peace, but just because he's dead, doesn't mean you have misrepresent his legacy.
Senator Kennedy was a good man?
Maybe, but I hope no one ever forgets the Chappaquiddick incident where Senator Kennedy let a young woman die for his own self interest.