Let me see if I have this straight. Ted Kennedy planned to have a weekend party (read 2 days) for the “boiler room girls” who he decided had been most helpful in RFK’s campaign. It just so happened that the 6 chosen were young, attractive and single. Hosting the party were Kennedy and 5 male friends, none of whom brought their wives and none of the girls brought a date. For 2 days and 2 nights 6 married men and 6 unmarried women were going to party with liquor flowing freely (it was a Kennedy party, after all).
Presupposing that at least one of these people had a scintilla of intelligence, and considering Kennedy’s reputation of having the morals and self-control of a three-balled tomcat, didn’t any of these women realize how compromising this whole situation must have looked? Or did they already know what to expect at the party and figured no one would find out?
What ended up happening was awful, but I don’t think the boiler room girls were naive, perhaps infatuated by power and thoughts that the married men were not all that attached to their marriages, IOW both sides thinking maybe they could get lucky in different ways.
I have never heard what happened to any of the characters in this except Teddy.