Peter Kanellis
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250 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
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Just the repetition and the mass scrutiny of his judgment and his errors and those kinds of things, I think, you know, it would not have withstood that kind of pressure.
massive critical scrutiny.
On the other hand, there were no shortage of people blaming Kennedy for this, and there was no shortage of effort on the part of the Nixon sort of central command to try to draw attention to Kennedy's lapses.
They viewed Kennedy as a real threat to Nixon in the 1972 presidential election and were quite happy to see him sidelined and certainly wanted him to be sidelined.
So it wasn't like this flew under the radar screen for anybody.
I mean, I think the implications of this were quite visible to the American public.
I think Ted himself also suffered in some ways in comparison to his dead brothers.
He was the one, the flawed human being sitting in the middle when
They had become these sainted figures by then.
But Massachusetts continued to love the Kennedys.
And Massachusetts, I think, had felt that the Jack Kennedy presidency had brought tremendous new cachet and attention to Massachusetts.
I think there was just a tremendous respect and regard.
It was an era when...
Catholic families in Massachusetts would have a picture of Jack Kennedy on their dining room wall.
I mean, they revered Kennedy, and he had been the first Catholic president, you know, all these things.
So there was an underlying loyalty to the Kennedys that Ted could draw on in that situation.
And by tailoring his appeals to...
his Massachusetts constituents, his hometown people, he established a very low bar for himself to survive.
It was, you know, I will do what my constituents want, but he's asking the friendliest possible audience to judge his behavior rather than speak to the nation at large.
And I think that helped him to survive.
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