Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cocaine dealing enterprise while at Harvard left a bad taste in at least one customer’s mouth.

Author Kurt Andersen told The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles about what happened after he went to Kennedy’s college dorm room to buy the drug from the “Kennedy brat” more than 50 years ago, as well as other stories about the future Health and Human Services boss.

With $40 to spend, Andersen and a friend met Kennedy to make a purchase. After showing them a backgammon case full of marijuana and offering some, Kennedy left the room and returned about five minutes later.

As Andersen explained, Kennedy “put out a line of coke and we tried it with his little—he hands us a little piece of, you know, one-inch straw that he’d gotten from... the freshman eating place next to

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