His handlers grossly underestimated the impact of Chappaquiddick in 1980. The truth of the matters is that his hopes for the presidency ended in 1969.

@TT_1221

6 жыл бұрын

I think he knew he wouldn't win before he announced for it. His campaign was half hearted. At times he seemed terrified, deeply uncertain. I don't think he wanted it but felt obliged to run for it.

@lynnwhite7202

6 жыл бұрын

Tonyo1221 why would he feel obligated ?

@supasaiyajinjay5387

6 жыл бұрын

Well, fact of the matter is, many expected him to in a sense “pick up” where his brother’s left off. Most supporters expected him to. However, it all came down to the simple fact that’s Ted just didn’t want to be president. He was content in the Senate. That’s where he felt he belonged.

@edwingamboa3441

6 жыл бұрын

Terri henricks hyyyyy

@MontgomeryMall

5 жыл бұрын

He sunk his 1980 campaign when he completely flubbed a softball question from Roger Mudd, "Why do you want to be president?" Kennedy fumbled the question with a meandering answer.

Should have run in 76 right after Nixon or waited until 88 after Reagan was done.

Kennedy must not have really wished to be president. His chance was in 76.

@williamwingo4740

2 жыл бұрын

He may not have wanted it, but it was his destiny. He was a Kennedy. Officially, he sat out 1976 for family reasons: his son was having cancer treatments. The truth was, even he knew it was still too soon after Chappaquiddick. But I agree that 1976 was probably his best chance. Ford was the weakest republican candidate in modern times.

@FrankIsAlwaysRight

2 жыл бұрын

Ding ding ding…you got it

@douglasjames1943

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, he never really wanted it. I think he only ran in 1980 to get everybody off his back about it, knowing that even as weak as Jimmy Carter was politically, he was still the incumbent of his own party and challenging an incumbent in your own party for the presidency almost never succeeds. Then remember for a while there Carter had the upper hand in the early days of the Iran hostage crisis when he was considered untouchable for being beyond politics for a while. Teddy never ran before 1980 or after which tells me this was the only time he was willing to do it. He bowed out of the '84 race in '82, a full 2 years before, and bowed out of '88, the last time anybody really considered him a possibility, all the way back in 1985. He never wanted the White House--he was not suited for it, performing far better in the Senate than he likely would have as President, and considering the ever present specter of Chappaquiddick, he was unelectable anyway.

@reneauvray3440

11 ай бұрын

Had John and Robert not been shot, Chappaquiddick would have never happened and Ted would have made president .

November 7, 1979; Senator Ted Kennedy announce his candidacy for the 1980 Democratic Presidential Nomination against the incumbent President Jimmy Carter.

@ClassPresidentAlejandro1999

3 жыл бұрын

I saw that on the old news clips

@williamwingo4740

2 жыл бұрын

Hillary Clinton had the same problem campaigning against incumbent Barak Obama in 2012.

@docadams7099

2 жыл бұрын

This was just three days after Iran seized over 50 of our citizens in the American Embassy in Tehran.

Nobody: Cameraman: ZOOOOOM!!!

It’s so crazy they wanted him, in 1968 to replace his brother after his assassination as the Democratic nomination at 36 years old

Ted Kennedy should have ran in 1976 . he would have won.

@williamwingo4740

2 жыл бұрын

You're probably right that 1976 was his best chance. A store-window mannikin could have beaten Ford. OTOH, it was only seven years after the big "C." OTOH, even if he had become president, Chappaquiddick wasn't going to go away. Thee were plenty of anti-Kennedy politicians and media types to keep it coming back again and again, like Banquo's ghost appearing to MacBeth. It would have haunted him for the entire term. If by some miracle Gerald Ford had become president in 1976, he would have had the same problem with the Nixon pardon.

"Today I want to speak to all citizens of America". Senator Ted Kennedy's first line sounded so dark with not a lot of feeling in it.

@ReZnMusic

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't see how that's dark. Sounded professional to me...

@ClassPresidentAlejandro1999

3 жыл бұрын

I know right

@garyteague4480

2 жыл бұрын

Yes your correct! Good point, I don’t know what u meant about “dark “ but I feel no passion and that first line had been used way to much and he needed a better opening

Gotta luv that camera work lol

He looks like what I imagine his three brothers would have looked like at that age!

@boulevard14

11 ай бұрын

He was around the age here as John Kennedy was when he died.

@cheneethompson5756

11 ай бұрын

@@boulevard14 makes sense All the kennedy siblings looked alike!

Teddy never really wanted nor felt worthy to be president

It was silly to primary Jimmy carter

@ryantrent2114

Жыл бұрын

It may seem that way in retrospect but when he first entered the race, he was leading Carter 58-25. It was only after he started doing interviews, that his numbers began plummeting. The country was moving away from his liberalism.

@PatriotMapper

3 ай бұрын

Not really. Carter was super unpopular and was going to lose to Reagan no matter what. Ted Kennedy as the nominee would have remedied the disdain for Carter and allowed for the Democrats to maybe win.

@barrister99

3 ай бұрын

No it was not.

Very strong voice

When looking back in retrospect, Senator Kennedy did comment the way the United States was going at that moment and it did not look very good. Inflation and the recession was running high at that time.

As I drove down that road to the bridge in Chappequiddick.....As a Senatah, a married man, enebroiahted, in a cah with a single woman, I am not a Liah, check my statement that next morning ten houahs aftah the accident, of which I was a paaht.

@unitedwestandoffical3581

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

I LOVE HIM!!!

@sillyboy2223

Жыл бұрын

Yeah? You like that don’t you?

@tsb7911

Жыл бұрын

@@sillyboy2223 You picked a good name for yourself.

This camera man was as drunk as Teddy the night he murdered MaryJo

@mattsmith3835

5 жыл бұрын

Heyyyooo

Can you imagine if Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, or any other Republican Senator had done anything remotely similar to Ted at Chappaquiddick? The media and Democrat Party would have been on this 24/7 until they had their political scalp.

@BrewsterOldDog

6 ай бұрын

He did pay. Chappaquiddick cost him the Presidency.

Probably THE greatest legislator of the 20th century. Both he or Robert Kennedy would have been excellent Presidents.

@galileocan

7 жыл бұрын

Agnes with all due respect, you don't know what you are talking about. You are emotional, judging this man on his personal life, but certainly not on his life as a United States Senator. People on both sides of the political aisle acknowledge that Senator Kennedy was one of the most effective senators to ever serve. He was able to reach out to members of both parties to ensure that legislation beneficial to all Americans got passed. I will say however, that you fit well with most Americans today. There is little respect for those with intelligence who want to dedicate their life to the public good. Pathetically, today, what matters is who insults their opponent the best, what names they can make up and lies they can spin. We will never see a politician like Senator Kennedy again. America is now a nation in decline.....and I could cry.....

@galileocan

7 жыл бұрын

Ask any legislator in the last 60 years what kind of Senator Ted Kennedy was. Ask them how he worked with people from both parties, something that is impossible today. If people in Washington worked together like he worked with people, the country wouldn't be in the mess it is. This isn't what he created, its opposite to what is now the case. Ask the people of his home state who elected him 9 consecutive times. 9!! (P.S. - Thanks for insulting the people of the great state of Massachusetts as well). Kennedy's contributions are well known by millions in and out of politics. His legacy certainly doesn't need your endorsement to be legitimized, and your unfair and personal gripe luckily will have no bearing on the high ranking that he will retain in the history books long after all of us are gone.

@galileocan

7 жыл бұрын

History will be the judge of Senator Kennedy not you. My bet is that your judgemental and emotional analysis won't be the one that gets written and read about.

@marysmith27

6 жыл бұрын

BS!! THEY WERE MEDIOCRE STUDENTS AND WOMANIZERS!!

@ronaldhamman7877

6 жыл бұрын

LOL that iis why RFK was killed as for Teddy he was a slimeball

Bad camera work

Great man. Should have been president

Dirt bag. No other way around it. What he did to Joan was inhumane.

Make a stand? Who stood for Mary Jo?

@steve2474

6 жыл бұрын

Sadly very few. The diver that pulled her out, John Farrar, was the only one close to the case that did so.

He should have made it and the country would have benefited, if it were not for Chappaquiddick I am glad he continued in the Senate.

Forecasted the downfall of Carter its funny that today most people would clamor for either one who were moderate New Democrat's...

Why did he take four and a half minutes to actually make his point. Bobby and Jack announced in less than thirty seconds.

This murderer/drunk/womanizer should be ashamed 2 show his face!!!

@FelizNAVIDad293

5 жыл бұрын

Mary Smith idiotic statement

@niyomphusopha5375

5 жыл бұрын

Sucks

@frankcivitak8248

Жыл бұрын

Sen edward kennedy should have been president in 1972

4:34 - He had so much hope there.

@unitedwestandoffical3581

2 жыл бұрын

Ho hum attitude

what month did that aire?

@ryantrent2114

Жыл бұрын

November 1979

I know to much trade paul whelan 4 larry chester thomas aniel

So dumb to run against the incumbent of your own party. The year 1976 was the year he might have had a chance. RIP

@williamwingo4740

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately in the United States, the presidency only comes up once in a while; and when it does, there's often an incumbent presumptive candidate. If you want to be president, you have to seize the day. Compare Reagan vs. Ford in 1976 and Hillary vs. Obama in 2012. And there are those who believe Robert Kennedy bought Lyndon Johnson off in 1968--and then came Sirhan.

Ghosts aren't real.... ...awkward...

Who is working the camera ? Helen Keller?

man, you're clever!! -__-

The Lion of the Senate

@bubbiesdad

6 жыл бұрын

Lyin' of the Senate.

@marysmith27

6 жыл бұрын

NONSENSE!

Thank God he never made it to the Whitehouse except as a visitor.

I would have loved to have seen Ronald Reagan debate this clown. Mr. Reagan would have just let Ted talk and talk and talk and rant, rant, rant in his angry tone before making him look ridiculous by smiling and responding with a zinger that cut him down to size. Ted should have ran against him in 1984, but he was too scared. The Democrats might have won 2 states in that election instead of one. Even his loyalists who excused his callous behavior and lying manipulation at Chappaquiddick (the voters of Massachusetts) voted for Reagan in 1984.

That awkward nodding of his head as people applaud is very weird and shows he's not into this.

he killed a woman

This went to far

Who's handling the camera, a two year old???

Chappaquiddick aside, in the end, had Ted followed the conservative ideals of his older brother (JFK) and not spiraled down to the bottom - endorsing Barack Obama, arguably one of America's worst and weakest modern day presidents, Ted might've gone down as a great American. His poor judgement (from Chappaquiddick, to booze, to aligning with failed socialist policies in his political life) was Ted at his worst. Ted, at his best, was a good and loving father, uncle, and protector of his extended family.

@FelizNAVIDad293

5 жыл бұрын

Obama? Worst and weakest? What a stupid and untrue statement

@misslovejoy1665

4 жыл бұрын

He was a fairly decent senator as well.

@williamwingo4740

2 жыл бұрын

@@misslovejoy1665 Talk about damning with faint praise....

@hschsc1300

2 жыл бұрын

His brother was not a conservative, in what world was JFK a conservative? This is someone who literally ran on National Health Insurance in 1960 as his main policy proposal. Sanders is painted as some communist for doing the exact same thing.

@jimcat51207

Жыл бұрын

'Spiraled to the bottom' I believe you must be referring to trump... Your conservative nonsense is morally bankrupt. Sure, Teddy had substantial personal failures, most of which were self inflicted. Yet he at least made public acknowledgement of his failures. That's a lot more than trump or W ever did.

Zombies are not real but people beleave in them. Ghosts though my friend are real. Somw freindly some not so. Ted though is a least in peace or hell. Guess it depends on your opinion.

@marysmith27

6 жыл бұрын

C'mon.. the guy's baking!!

Kinda blew that one didn’t ya teddy boy! 👏😂