Another eulogy..or simply a list of "accomplishments" of Teddy;
I found this very interesting.......from my cousin who lives in Kennebunkport. Sandy
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> > The Last
> > of The Kennedy Dynasty
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> > 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.
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> > 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=2 0shortened 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 of his
> > "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of
> > Private!
> >
> > 4.) While attending law school at the University of
> > Virginia , he was cited for reckless
> > driving four times, including once when he was clocked
> > driving 90
> > miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his
> > headlights off after dark.. Yet
> > his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. Coincidentally,
> > he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!
> >
> > 5.) In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash and
> > hospitalized for several months.
> > Test results done by the hospital at the time he was
> > admitted had shown he was legally
> > intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a
> > "state secret" until in the 1980's when the
> > report was unsealed. Didn't hear
> > about that from the unbiased media, did we?
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> > 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.
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> > 7.) 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 un certain, but after
> > the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove
> > under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't
> > call police
> > because he was in a state of shock. It is widely
> > assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he
> > held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix
> > the
> > problem overnight. Since the accident Kennedy's
> > "political enemies" have referred to him
> > as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick.
> > He pleaded
> > guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given
> > a SUSPENDED
> > SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's family
> > received a small payout from the Kennedy's
> > insurance policy and never
> > sued. There was later an effort to have her body
> > exhumed and
> > autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this
> > in=2 0court, and Kennedy's
> > family paid their attorney's bills.... a "token of
> > friendship"?
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> > 8.) Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty
> > years, but considering his
> > longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored
> > or argued
> > for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights,
> > increased the minimum wage in
> > 1981, made access to health care easier for the
> > indigent, funded Meals on
> > Wheels for fixed-income seniors, and is widely held as
> > the "standard-bearer
> > for liberalism". In his very first Senate roll he
> > was the floor manager for
> > the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside
> > down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world
> > countries..
> >
> > 9.) Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and
> > author of every expansion of an
> > increase in immigration up to and including the latest attempt to grant
> > amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the
> > pious grilling he gave
> > the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the standard bearer
> > for the nation in matters of ³what¹s right². What a
> > pompous
> > ass!
> >
> > 10.) He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud,
> > boisterous, and very
> > disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description
> > than "great American".
> > "A blonde in every pond" is his motto.
> >
> > Let's not allow the spin doctors to make this jerk a
> > hero -- how quickly the American public
> > forgets what his real legacy is.
> >
> >
> > Send this on, as a LOT of the younger people don't have
> > a clue about all of this, and us older
> > ones tend to forget things that happened so many years
> > ago. Although I HAVEN'T!
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