Rupert Murdoch, for one thing. Murdoch had been awaiting a favorable decision from the Export-Import Bank on financing for an airliner deal he was involved in, and got it two days after a February 17 meeting with Carter. Both before that and afterward, his New York Post kept putting nasty Kennedy stuff on the cover like “TEDDY IS THE TOAST OF TEHRAN” and “TEDDY’S SECRET PARTIES.” Then Kennedy
