I will not bring politics into the discussion. But I refuse to believe that WSC would ever have acted as despicably as the late Senator Kennedy did at Chappaquiddick. Had he not been a Kennedy in Massachusetts, he would have spent a goodly number of years in the slammer.
The media has been eager to sweep Mary Jo Kopechne under the rug. She should not be forgotten.
Jonathan Hayes
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>
> A new thread: Edward Moore Kennedy and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
>
> As a Churchillian, and a man from Massachusetts who proudly wears a PT 109
> tie clasp, I can't help but see parallels between my late senator for most
> of my life and WSC.
>
> The scenes at the JFK Library in Boston of ordinary folk waiting in line
> over three hours to pass the bier are reminiscent of 1965. Due to popular
> demand, viewing was extended past the scheduled time; another parallel.
>
> I hear that the British and the Irish P.M.s are to attend Senator Kennedy's
> rites tomorrow, as are the current U.S. president (whose election owes a
> great deal to the endorsements of Senator Kennedy and his niece Caroline)
> and three out of four living ex-presidents.
>
> I was privileged to witness yesterday the cortege drive through the streets
> of Boston - the Kennedy stronghold - and to sail today close to the John F.
> Kennedy Library (coming about before the posted Coast Guard pickets could
> challenge us!).
>
> The most striking parallel is that EMK was the master of, and a great lover
> of, the U.S. Senate just as WSC was the master of the House of Commons.
> Today's New York Times reports an example of this: that Senator Kennedy
> arranged for Robert Caro, the LBJ biographer, to address senators about the
> traditions of the Senate. But for the equally esteemed Senator Byrd,
> Senator Kennedy would be known as the father of the Senate.
>
> I invite commentary not on Senator Kennedy's politics but on his role as a
> parliamentarian, a lover of his legislative house and his obsequies, vis a
> vis those characteristics in Winston Churchill.
>
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