Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A Sober Look at Ted Kennedy

I think it has been long enough since his death...this article was written in the early 90s by a well respect journalist, who was later killed in Afghanistan. Interesting article. A sample below.

For his hard public drinking, his obsessive public womanizing and his frequent boorishness, he has become a late-century legend, Teddy the Terrible, the Kennedy Untrammeled. In Washington, it sometimes seems as if everyone knows someone who has slept with Kennedy, been invited to sleep with Kennedy, seen Kennedy drunk, been insulted by Kennedy. At Desirée, a private Georgetown club where well-heeled fat men mingle with society brats and party girls, Kennedy is known as a thrice-a-month habitué and remembered by at least one fellow customer for the time he made a scene with his overenthusiasm for a runway model during a club fashion show. In a downtown office, a former congressional page tells of her surprise meeting with Kennedy three years ago. She was 16 then. It was evening and she and her 16-year-old page, an attractive blonde, were walking down the Capitol steps on their way home from work when Kennedy's limo pulled up and the senator opened the door. In the backseat stood a bottle of wine on ice. Leaning his graying head out the door, the senator popped the question: Would one of the girls care to join him for dinner? No? How about the other? The girls said no thanks and the senator zoomed off.

2 comments:

Olivia W. said...

My mother always told me never to get into cars with senators...

Andre said...

"the drink-befuddled young woman became frightened when she 'saw Ted Kennedy coming naked at her,' and adds, 'that would scare me too, and I would like to say I am a pretty brave man.'"