Democrat Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse may vote for President Donald Trump’s secretary nominee for Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., local Rhode Island outlet WPRI reported Friday.
Both Kennedy and Whitehouse have a longstanding friendship dating back to their time as law school roommates at the University of Virginia — both earning a Juris Doctorate in 1982, Talking Points Memo reported Friday.
“On many mornings, the two young men, scions of wealthy families with histories of public service, hiked and hunted in the woods around Charlottesville, Va.,” The Providence Journal wrote in 1998. “Kennedy half-jokingly says he failed his first bar exam because Whitehouse persuaded him to take a four-day whitewater rafting trip in West Virginia when he should have been studying.”
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