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beam se ty ee ‘ / 2 gr Wien Rees Or ae ee er eon ee Serer te ’ 1 eee A capone rete ge fay cert pte : i a i t ay aware what - “public re= “Kennedy? ee sae hese’, were the“ mén “who “would” say: “thiee ~ . months ago. that Sen. Kennedy was not running - for the presidency, but-who knew very. well that _ “he: ‘Gould have the Democratic presidential nomina- tion for the asking in 1972. . ate FY . The advice “from the lawyers” who are: de-~ « fending him in this case. was clearly something - else. They are interested ‘in ‘the ‘immediate. prob:. lem. He was involved in what they, called. an accu j ; ~ satory process of the law in the. inquest. © +..+% * -« Because Kennedy could be accused, their job : * was to protect his rights, They wanted the right to ‘etoss-examine witnesses. and they wanted, as law- _ --yers for- Kennedy, to be present in thé courtroom” ; When other witnesses testified, _ - 3 13 Dehied those rights, they wanted ‘the inquest, halted. - a. mt 8 ah . < positions: peep ste ar om . The decision was very fundamental both to his. ‘ case: and perhaps to the public ¢é career of the Sen- “ator. But Kennedy ‘was . sponse might be to law-- _yers, who represent “him, arguing in a high ‘court over the’ ground rules under’ which he ° iwill testify cat. an ine quest. ae - Kennedy ‘then ‘had to make a-‘decision, one Anvolving his private ° “life and the other in-. volving his public life. “Politically, this will: “not: be read-as a deci- “sion in which he want- +ed to get his story told “to. the public. . His attorne ; Ed- . “ward Hanify, made an- "JUDGE BOYLE . other point in- court about the vast aniount of pub- ; licity that the case has received. ° 4 Sen. Kennedy is very much a public man and . the U.S. Supreme Court long ago ruled that public “men can be measured by a different yardstick be- ~cause they are afforded a public forum where they - can answer their critics, ' Soe -., . But the real test is not really here: in a court- : room’ in Edgartown or in’ the Supreme Judicial - “Court 3 in Boston. A “¢ “What is at stake here is a public man’s credi- “pility—_whether the public really believes that Sen. ; Kennedy has leveled with them in this case. .*» Because if they. do not believe this, as-Sen. | ’ Kennedy himself said in, his televised statement, “he cannot serve. ° ri eg .hat’s the real issue in this case “for Sen.’ i re ae eu F tieseee ave , Sane paatirnatat Kennedy | had, to * “decide ‘Between. ‘these ‘two. j