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

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Friday 28 August 2009

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"Too damn bad if he gets shot" was attitude of president who wanted agents to dig into potential rival's "super-swinger" lifestyle.

Washington - 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.

"Do you have anybody in the secret service that you can get to?" the US president asked his aide John Ehrlichman in a stark series of Oval Office conversations about Kennedy before the 1972 election. "Yeah, yeah," Ehrlichman replied.

"Plant one," Nixon said. "Plant two guys on him. This could be very useful."