 Complete the following phrase:  Due to the Palm Beach media attention and the Thomas hearings, Kennedys public image suffered. A Gallup Poll gave Kennedy a very low 22 percent national approval rating. A Boston HeraldWCVB-TV poll found that 62 percent of Massachusetts citizens thought Kennedy should not run for re-election, by a 2-to-1 margin thought Kennedy had misled authorities in the Palm Beach investigation, and had Kennedy losing a hypothetical Senate race to Governor William Weld by 25 points. Meanwhile, at a June 17, 1991, dinner party, Kennedy saw Victoria Anne Reggie, a Washington lawyer at Keck, Mahin  Cate, a divorced mother of two, and the daughter of an old Kennedy family ally, Louisiana judge Edmund Reggie. They began dating and by September were in a serious relationship. In a late October speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy sought to begin a political recovery, saying: I am painfully aware that the criticism directed at me in recent months involves far more than disagreements with my positions ... It involves the disappointment of friends and many others who rely on me to fight the good fight. To them I say, I recognize my own shortcomings  the faults in the conduct of my private life. I realize that I alone am responsible for them, and I am the one who must confront them. In December 1991, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial was held; it was nationally televised and the most watched until the 