Betsy's Page has a post that includes a YouTube link to Roger Mudd's interview with Ted Kennedy in 1980. Kennedy was gearing up to run for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter. He failed of course, and the interview is one reason why.

Mudd caught Kennedy flatfooted: Why do you want to be president? "Well, I... uhmm...." Do you think that anyone will ever fully believe your explanation of Chappaquiddick?



I had forgotten all about the interview. Maybe I didn't see it.