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37 “I despise cocktail parties”: Sanford J. Ungar, “The Man Who Runs the Senate,” Atlantic, September 1975.

38 “take advantage of this opportunity”: Associated Press, “Haldeman Diary Shows Nixon Was Wary of Blacks and Jews,” New York Times, May 18, 1994.

39 “to run, to hide, to get caught, and to get away with it”: William Safire, “Prelude to the Bridge,” New York Times, October 29, 1979.

40 “fall of the House of Kennedy”: “Ted Kennedy Car Accident in Chappaquiddick,” Newsweek, August 3, 1969.

41 “People have to forgive and forget”: Maxine Cheshire, “The Mysterious Helga Wagner,” Washington Post, March 13, 1980.





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1 “My uncle stuck to whatever it is that he does”: Janet Maslin, “Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption,” New York Times, September 28, 2005.

2 “ailments, diseases, and near-death experiences”: Jon Ward, “The Son of a Bitch is Going to Run,” Vanity Fair, January 21, 2019.

3 “the same treatment that U.S. senators are entitled to”: “Ted Kennedy and Health Care Reform,” Newsweek, July 17, 2009.

4 “The cause of my life”: “Ted Kennedy and Health Care Reform.”

5 Joan “breaks down”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., The Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 188.

6 wedding and surgery on same day: Canellos, The Last Lion, 188.

7 “We’re going to climb that hill together”: “Edward Kennedy Jr.’s and Patrick Kennedy’s Remembrances,” New York Times, August 29, 2009.

8 “Those thousand days are like an evening gone”: Terence Smith, “Carter and Kennedy Share Stage at Library Dedication,” New York Times, October 21, 1979.

9 “I’ll whip his ass”: Ken Rudin, “Holding a Grudge for Thirty Years: Jimmy Carter Against Ted Kennedy,” National Public Radio, September 21, 2010.

10 “politically embarrassing incident”: Roger Mudd, “What Ted Said,” New York Review of Books, November 19, 2009.

11 “so obvious to him”: Transcript of interview with Robert Healy by Stephen F. Knott, “Robert Healy Oral History, Journalist, the Boston Globe,” Presidential Oral Histories—Edward M. Kennedy Histories, Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, August 10, 2005.

12 “an act of political destruction” Chris Whipple, “Ted Kennedy: The Day the Presidency Was Lost,” ABCNews.com, August 31, 2009.

13 “now brother drains brother”: Joe McGinniss, “The End of Camelot,” Vanity Fair, September 1993.

14 “A Pied Piper to three generations”: Robert G. Kaiser, Lee Lescaze, James L. Rose Jr., T. R. Reid, and Edward Walsh, “Ex-Rep Lowenstein Fatally Shot by Gunman in N.Y. Law Office,” Washington Post, March 15, 1980.

15 “We Love Ted—But Jimmy’s All Right, Too”: Talk of the Town, “Farewell,” The New Yorker, August 25, 1980.

16 “I don’t dwell on the past”: Glenn Collins, “The Quiet Kennedy Speaks Up,” New York Times, May 7, 1981.

17 “go through it all again”: Tom Morganthau, “Why Kennedy Withdrew from 1984 Race,” Newsweek, December 12, 1982.

18 “The Liberal Lion”: Andrew Glass, “Ted Kennedy, ‘Liberal Lion of the Senate,’ Dies at 77, Aug. 25, 2009,” Politico.com, August 25, 2017.

19 “civil rights, health, and economic well-being”: The White House, “Statement by the President on the Death of Senator Ted Kennedy,” Office of the Press Secretary, August 26, 2009.

244 “inherited a legend along with his name”: Ward, “The Son of a Bitch is Going to Run.”





PART SEVEN

The Next Generations: The Kennedy Cousins





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1 Magnet for the nouveau riche: Michelle Green, “Boys’ Night Out in Palm Beach,” People, April 22, 1991.

2 “an intelligent man, a likable man”: David Margolick, “Accuser in Smith Trial Tells of Fear and Rape,” New York Times, December 5, 1991.

3 “never done anything suggestive at all”: Margolick, “Accuser in Smith Trial Tells of Fear and Rape.”

4 $120,000: Mike Seemuth, “Pre-auction Exhibition of Kennedy Furnishings Re-creates “Camelot” in WPB,” Real Deal South Florida Real Estate News, January 15, 2016.

5 Profiles in Courage: David Foxley, “The Kennedy Winter White House Is Updated with the Unexpected,” Architectural Digest, December 11, 2017.

6 “dark, dingy, and smelly”: Dominick Dunne, “Damage,” Vanity Fair, October 1991.

7 “Ted was very drunk”: Green, “Boys’ Night Out in Palm Beach.”

8 “I got totally weirded out”: Green.

9 “a nice night with a nice guy”: Lisa Ocker, “Kennedy Smith Trial: Two Lives Collide,” Sun-Sentinel, December 1, 1991.

10 “surreal” behavior: Margolick, “Accuser in Smith Trial Tells of Fear and Rape.”

11 “running, to get away”: John Taylor, “Men on Trial,” New York Magazine, December 16, 1991.