her purse and her keys, her motel key back at the cottage. they also didn't head to the ferry. they headed in a different direction over a dirt road heading out to the beach. and the ferry had stopped running more than a half hour before they left the party. >> it seemed that ted kennedy's political career and any hope of the presidency was over. but in 1970, just 16 months later, the people of massachusetts overwhelmingly re-elected him to the senate. in a may 1971 poll, he led all democrats as a challenger to president nixon's re-election. a kennedy restoration still seemed possible. nixon was not anxious for a rematch, as becomes clear in the watergate tapes.