Caroline Kennedy became emotional when talking about her daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, who died this past December.
Kennedy was speaking at the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony held at her father’s presidential library Sunday.
Kennedy remembered the work of Schlodsberg, 35, who lost her battle with acute myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer. She also gave a shout-out to Schlossberg’s in-laws, the parents of her widower, George Moran.
“This year we even have new family members here. I am so happy to welcome Emma Shriver and Garrett and Mary Moran,” Caroline, 68, said, of George’s mom and dad.
“Most of all, we remember Tatiana who served on the board of this library and represented everything my parents stood for in her beautiful, amazing, and too short life,” she said, while getting choked up.
The Morans were attending the event for the first time, along with Sargent Shriver’s youngest granddaughter, Emma Shriver, 21.
“Politics is a family endeavor and I am so grateful to the members of my family who are here tonight and whose support over many years has kept my father’s spirit alive and made this institution a living memorial,” Kennedy said.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, wrote an essay for The New Yorker, when she revealed her cancer.
She also wrote of her cousin Secretary of Health and Human Services
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his alliance with President Donald Trump.
“I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,” Schlossberg wrote in her essay.
“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly half a billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,” she wrote.
Schlossberg died Dec. 30, 2025.
In addition to her husband, she left behind two children — Edwin, 4, and daughter Josephine, 2.
