Posted on 05/05/2006 11:47:02 AM PDT by WL-law
"Only reasons of health prevented my wife from accompanying me." (I'm not a philanderer).
"Mary J was one of the most devoted members of the staff of Senator Robert Kennedy. She worked for him for four years and was broken up over his death. For this reason, and because she was such a gentle, kind, and idealistic person, all of us tried to help her feel that she still had a home with the Kennedy family." (Never pass up an opportunity to wrap yourself in the bloody shirt of your dead brother. Milk it for all it's worth. And focus on the Kennedy FAMILY, not yourself")
"There is no truth, no truth whatever, to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct.." (Wrap your denials in quaint, staid New England language, to make yourself seem positively from 'flinty' old New England values)
"I know of nothing in Mary Jo's conduct on that or nay other occasion -- the same is true of the other girls at that party -- that would lend any substance to such ugly speculation about their character." (Defend the girl's honor as an oblique way of defending your indefensible behavior.)
"I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo by diving into strong and murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm." (Beautiful prose masks hideous behavior -- sometimes it really helps to have speechwriters around you)
"Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either in the physical, emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else." (As Laura Ingraham would describe it, here's an 'inverse-butt-monkey' move, and well executed)
"Instead of looking directly for a telephone after lying exhausted in the grass for an undetermined time, I walked back to the cottage where the party was being held" (Let me pack my totally descpicable behavior early in one sentence so yu can't parse it very quickly -- i.e., that I walked away, didnt get help, didnt knock on a door, I went BACK TO THE PARTY!!)
"They were reflected in the various inexplicable, inconsistent, and inconclusive things I said and did, including such questions as whether the girl might still be alive somewhere out of that immediate area, whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys..." (Again, wrap yourself in the bloody shirt, and now JFK's as well as Bobby's shirt)
"Instructing Gargan and Markham not to alarm Mary Jo's friends that night, I had them take me to the ferry crossing..." (Again, bury your indefensible behavior early in the sentence -- WE SAID NOTHING TO ANYBODY, even though we supposedly had just been diving to look for her body -- WEREN'T OUR CLOTHES WET? NOBODY ASKED ABOUT THAT?)
"The ferry having shut down for the night, I suddenly jumped into the water and impulsively swam across, nearly drowning once again in the effort, and returned to my hotel about 2 A.M. and collapsed in my room." (Mask an improbable lie in a Hemingway-esqe image of Teddy swimming in the night)
"In the morning, with my mind somewhat more lucid, I made an effort to call a family legal advisor.." (Don't use the word 'lawyer', as in "I called my lawyer before I called the police")
"This last week has been an agonizing one for me and for the members of my family, and the grief we feel over the loss .." (Wrap yourself in "we" meaning the Kennedys. The bloody shirt again, and hiding among the skirts of the Kennedy women)
"The people of this State, the State which sent John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster, and Charles Sumner, and Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Kennedy to the United States Senate are entitled to representation in that body by men who inspire their utmost confidence. For this reason.." (Again, wrap yourself being your dead brother)
"It has been written a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles, and dangers, and pressures, and that is the basis of human morality. Whatever may be the sacrifices he faces, if he follows his conscience -- the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow man -- each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of the past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul. I pray that I can have the courage to make the right decision. " (So this about my courage, rather than my lack of courage in abandoning Mary Jo. Get it?)
As was said of Bill Clinton, when he turned his 'confession' before religious leaders into a sermon, "the man is amazing -- he can stand on a pillory and turn it into a pulpit"
Have the feeling we're going to hear shades of this circa 3pm.
Family hasn't changed much, eh?
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Does anyone remember the "Saturday Night Live" sketch at the time of Teddy's declaration for President that played on this matter?
Sounds like "I did not have sexual intercourse with that woman".
Teddy has to stay tight with the unions
He will need dock workers and their container off loading equipment when it comes time to plant him....
I'd never read the transcript before. This couldn't have been written "better" as satire!
Here's the exact quote from Carr "His father, Ted, was the runt of the litter, and Patches is the runt of the litter of the runt of the litter. And the martini olive doesn’t fall far from the tree. "
That is priceless.
If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he would have been President.
"I had encouraged and helped sponsor for devoted group of Kennedy campaign secretaries."
Sounded pretty much like feeding season.
The poor young woman never had a chance.
In other words, forget what I did and vote for me.
I suppose one can take comfort in the Skakel verdict. Bunch of rotters.
Sorry, the Che pic was for the Andy Garcia thread.
"That explains why I was unable to handle an automobile. I have spent the lahhhhst 40 yeahhhhs of my life stewed like a prune, so the disturbing specter of sobriety temporarily incapacitated me. Once I returned to the pahhhhty and downed a couple of stiff belts, I was again the lovable, coherent patrician you've come to know.
So you might saw I was guilty of NOT driving under the influence of liquor. It was an unforgivable lapse of social responsibility, and I promise it will never happen again."
Is that supposed to be Che Guevara? I thought he had both hands cut off.
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