How Nixon Gave Ted Kennedy Bodyguards – to Spy on His Personal Life

From the AP

Richard Nixon considered Ted Kennedy such a threat that he tried to catch him cheating on his wife, even ordering aides to plant secret service bodyguards to spy on the senator’s behaviour … Nixon made clear that the secret service protection afforded Kennedy before the 1972 election would be rescinded after. Then, said the president, “if he gets shot, it’s too damn bad”. His aides disdainfully referred to Kennedy supporters as “super-swinger jet-set types”

i wonder who those jet set people are that they speak of? RIP T – mab ..read more

 

 

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