In a harsh letter to lawmakers considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for health secretary, Ms. Kennedy called her cousin unfit for the job and a “predator” who led family members to addiction.
Caroline Kennedy, at the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., last year. Ms. Kennedy has now publicly opposed her cousin’s nomination to be the nation’s health secretary, saying he is not qualified.
If confirmed by the Senate to be the nation’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have vast powers over immunization policies for children and adults.
President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton watched an oral polio vaccination at a health clinic in Arlington, Va., in 1993, part of his childhood immunization initiative.
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