Right now, I’m at a small journalism conference where they’ve convened local newsrooms, funders, news influencers and media strategists. I’ve had no fewer than five women stop me and ask if I’m OK, and I’ve done the same in turn. We’ve heard that one of our friends had a team member swatted because of their work with immigrant communities. On the other hand, it’s been terrific to catch up with colleagues and to learn about grandkids, engagements and new houses. I sat with one industry leader, and we concluded that our lives are great but that our country is in peril. It’s tough to reconcile these things.
This week, Caroline Kennedy released a letter denouncing her first cousin Robert Kennedy Jr.’s bid to become head of Health and Human Services. To say the letter was scathing from a woman I’ve always thought of as very careful is an understatement. She showed us behind-the-scenes moments of RFK Jr.’s drug addiction and how he pulled other cousins down the primrose path. I spent much of this week screaming at the TV as he testified before Congress while sputtering nonsense and, by all accounts, denying that he said a number of things he clearly said.
The times are changing, and they are disturbing. RFK Jr. represents a clown car of deplorables the Trump administration keeps trotting out to run things they have no business running. At the same time, my 5-year-old nephew is in a tug of war with his mom over his pillow, which is actually her pillow that he no longer wants her using when he’s not at her house. These two stay in a tussle about something, and they give me joy, yet the barbarian at the gate has me worrying incessantly about this.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy speaking with attendees at the 2018 Dinner with Kennedy hosted by the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute at the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. 9 November 2018. Gage Skidmore
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Recently, Caroline Kennedy (pictured) wrote a letter revealing
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