Ted Kennedy: the Dream That Never Died
“But history has taught us otherwise. In actual practice, virtue has always been in short supply among the world’s leaders. Two of the greatest figures from the past were France’s Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord and Britain’s King Edward VII. Now universally regarded as among the most accomplished statesmen of their time, these men were also devoted to lives of lechery, fornication, and self-gratification. The same can be said of two of America’s great nineteenth-century parliamentarians: Kentuck...y’s Henry Clay and Massachusetts’s Daniel Webster. As one of their contemporaries, an American politician and wealthy plantation owner by the name of James Hammond, noted, “[T]he very greatest men that have lived have been addicted to loose indulgences with women. It is the besetting sin of the strong, and of the weak also, of our race. Among us now Webster and Clay are notorious for it.”1More recently, journalists, historians, and biographers have substituted the psychological notion of “character”MoreLess
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