Economics
Kennedy Mystique Dominates Hearing for Japan Envoy Post
This article is for subscribers only.
The Kennedy mystique dominated a Senate hearing on Caroline Kennedy’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to Japan, as lawmakers spent about as much time praising her family’s legacy as they did asking questions.
The daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy would represent the U.S. at a time when the “rise of the Asia-Pacific region may well prove to be the single most transformative geopolitical shift of the 21st century,” said Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat.