Best wishes fighting cancer not only to Nancy but also to Senator Ted Kennedy, whose 1980 presidential campaign I was sympathetic with - even though it hindsight it helped lead to Ronald Reagan - as I had soured on President Carter with his right turn. I know from reading letters to Florida's governor in the early 1960s how much white Southerners hated all of the Kennedy brothers, and I certainly heard occasional jabs at Ted Kennedy from my anti-abortion dissertation research informants. Until they built a new bridge, I always thought the bridge over the Ochlocknee Bay just south of Panacea, Florida always looked like that bridge at Chappaquiddick. It was Watergate burglar Howard Hunt's investigation into Chappaquidick that helped the "Washington Post" first get interested in the Watergate story. Kennedy's last tough U.S. Senate reelection fight - soon after he got remarried - was against a young Republican businessman who had recently moved to Massachusetts named Mitt Romney. Talking heads the Democrats in the Senate will miss Kennedy for as long as he is unable to be on the senate floor - because - as liberal as he has been - he was also able to work out deal with Republicans (something that Clinton, Obama, and McCain talk about, but doesn't always get done).
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