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.
10 “Lead with the moonwalk or Chappaquiddick”: Transcript of interview with Robert Healy.
11 “happening at the worst possible moment for Ted Kennedy”: Lorraine Boissoneault, “Why the True Story of Chappaquiddick Is Impossible to Tell,” Smithsonian, April 2, 2018.
12 “I tried to interview people about it. Not only Kennedy”: Interview with Adam Clymer, reporter, the New York Times, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
13 “You knew you weren’t going to get anything from the Kennedys”: “Robert Healy Oral History, Journalist, the Boston Globe.”
14 “I was the driver”: Canellos, The Last Lion, 161.
15 “I’m in some trouble”: Rita Dallas with Jeanira Ratcliffe, The Kennedy Case (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 338.
16 “what he is, is just not enough”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 390.
17 “people think I’d be trying to get their sympathy”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 340–41.
18 “before he or anyone else told me what was going on”: Jim Rattray, “Joan Kennedy said Thursday Her Former Secretary and Confidante,…” United Press International, October 18, 1985.
19 “seemed to have trouble kneeling”: “Sen. Kennedy Attends Funeral of Secretary Killed in Wreck,” Desert Sun, July 22, 1969.
20 “a degree of alcohol, but it was very well down”: “Sen. Kennedy Attends Funeral of Secretary Killed in Wreck.”
21 “no business in giving a Breathalyzer”: “Ted Kennedy Car Accident in Chappaquiddick,” Newsweek, August 3, 1969.
22 A misdemeanor charge: Canellos, The Last Lion, 168.
23 “Has already been and will continue to be punished”: Canellos, 169.
24 “I think they disserved him”: Interview with Lester Hyman, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
25 “so impaired that I should resign”: Edward M. Kennedy, “Address to the People of Massachusetts on Chappaquiddick,” July 25, 1969, AmericanRhetoric.
26 “extremely favorable” ratings drop: Canellos, The Last Lion, 173.
27 “satisfied with the senator’s statement”: Canellos, 172.
28 “looking for blood money”: William Kashatus, “Remembering Mary Jo: A Promising Life Lost at Chappaquiddick 40 Years Ago,” Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA), July 19, 2009.
29 “damn little, considering”: George Lardner Jr., “Chappaquiddick 1989,” Washington Post, July 16, 1989.
30 Suffers a miscarriage: United Press International, “Mrs. Joan Kennedy Goes Home After Miscarriage,” Desert Sun, September 1, 1969.
31 “nothing to do with Mary Jo Kopechne”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
32 “hang Chappaquiddick around Kennedy’s neck”: Michael Cooper and John M. Broder, “F.B.I. Opens Kennedy File,” New York Times, June 15, 2010.
33 “visited Greece in August, 1968”: Cooper and Broder, “F.B.I. Opens Kennedy File.”
34 “brought down by a mere Polish secretary”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
35 “He has nothing to fear”: “Former Detective Admits Leaking Chappaquiddick Probe Info to Kennedy Lawyer,” Associated Press, July 25, 1991.
36 “KENNEDY OUSTED AS WHIP”: John W. Finney, “Kennedy Ousted as Whip,” New York Times, January 22, 1971.
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.
Chapter 42
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