Ted Kennedy by Edward Klein

Author:Edward Klein [Klein, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-45105-7
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2009-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

ON MAY 15, 1972, while campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, for the Democratic presidential nomination, George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, was shot by a would-be assassin. The near-fatal attack convinced many people that all presidential contenders—even those who had not yet won their party’s nomination—should be given Secret Service protection, and Nixon immediately seized on this idea as a way to plant spies on Ted Kennedy.

“Is there anyone [in the Secret Service] we can rely upon?” Nixon asked Erlichman at a meeting in the Oval Office.

“Yeah, yeah,” Erlichman replied. “We got several.”

“Plant one, plant two guys on [Kennedy],” Nixon said. “This would be very useful.”

Later, Nixon added: “We just might get lucky and catch this son of a bitch. Ruin him…. It’s going to be fun.”

And so, Nixon assigned a Secret Service detail to Ted Kennedy, even though Ted hadn’t declared his candidacy for the nomination and hadn’t asked for protection. Perhaps smelling a rat, Ted called off the protection after a few weeks.

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