Only it wasn’t 1960. Between the scars of Chappaquiddick—where, in 1969, a young woman drowned in Teddy’s car after he drove off a small bridge and fled—and the growing sense of alienation from liberal Democrats among Chicago’s ethnic Catholics, the youngest Kennedy brother was bound to face a tough road. And, as it turned out, Byrne’s imprimatur became more an albatross than a boon.
