“When you confronted yourself with this accusation, you said you were, quote, not a boy from the Church and that you, quotes, have so many skeletons in my wardrobe. You then sent a message to Miss Cooney and indicated that you had no memory of what you described, “said Murray, clearly asking if he had done sexual progress.
“No, I didn’t do it,” said Kennedy. He added that the account had been dispelled, without offering information to confirm his request. Mrs. Murray asked why she was apologized. “I apologized for something else,” he replied.
(In the text, whose contents have been reported by journalistic organizations including the Times in July, Mr. Kennedy wrote: “I have no memory of this accident, but I apologize sincerely for everything I have ever made you heard Uncomfortable or whatever I did or said he offended you or wounded your feelings. “
Mrs. Murray pushed, asking Mr. Kennedy if there were “other cases in which you made sexual progress towards an individual without their consent? Only yes or not.”
“No,” replied Mr. Kennedy.
In the responses he presented on Friday, he did not specify the type of agreement he had reached or the nature of the “bad conduct or inappropriate behavior” of which he was accused. In a declaration and -mail at the Times on Friday, Mrs. Murray recalled the exchange on the babysitter and said that Mr. Kennedy was “clearly unsuitable” to lead the health and human services department.
“His responses to the financial committee are deeply worrying: the American people deserve responses and senators must have them before a vote is held on their appointment,” said the note.