Politicians' spouses are tasked with publicly supporting their partner at all times, even when it seems impossible.
Pat Nixon stoically stood by the president when his involvement in Watergate forced him to resign.
Hillary Clinton endured the humiliation of her husband’s infidelity.
EvenMelania and Donald Trump’s marriagecontinues to survive (somehow).
Kennedy, a noted environmental champion, is also an outspoken critic of vaccines and vaccination mandates.
He’s come under fire for continuing to preach the long-debunked link between childhood vaccines and autism.
“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland,” he declared.
“You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” (viaPeople).
“The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything.
His opinions are not a reflection of my own.”
It’s also guaranteed to be a tough battle.
Among them are members of his own family.
“We love Bobby,” they affirmed.
“He is one of the great champions of the environment.
However, on vaccines he is wrong.
And his and others' work against vaccines is having heartbreaking consequences.”
According to theDaily Mail, Kennedy proposed to his second wife before he had even divorced his first.
Kennedy’s Holocaust comparison, however, was what nearly drove the couple apart at least, on paper.
“We wouldn’t really be doing anything … That doesn’t seem too much to ask.”
