Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (33 page)

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it was a privilege to travel:
TTR,
26.

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“practical things of this world”:
Ibid., 27–28.

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“foundation and the crowning point”:
Women of the Spirit,
8.

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“pure like Mary”:
Daughters of the Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul,
Manual of the Children of Mary, for the Use of All the Establishments, Schools, and Orphan Asylums of the Sisters of Charity
(New York: P. J. Kennedy, 1878), 9–10.

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“Purity, Humility”:
Ibid., 63.

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“It came to me”:
Interview with RFK in DKG, 185.

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“a model of perfection”:
Daughters of the Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul,
Manual of the Children of Mary,
448.

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Rose wrote home:
TTR,
31, 34.

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“more and more in love”:
Interview with RFK in DKG, 218.

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His schemes
and following: DKG, chaps. 10–16; and DN, 36–55.

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After a honeymoon:
“Daughter of Former Mayor to Wed Today,”
Boston Globe,
October 7, 1914.

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“We owe them”:
“Mary and Eddie Moore,” 9; “Diary Notebook: A Married Life, 1 of 2,” August 23, 1971; both in RFKP, box 5.

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“They derived vicarious pleasure”:
“Mary and Eddie Moore,” RFKP, box 5.

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Mary Moore helped:
“Children Born at Home,” RFKP, box 5.

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loved them like cherished:
TTR,
59–60.

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“shadow, his stand-in”:
Gloria Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson: An Autobiography
(New York: Pocket Books, 1980), 357.

2. THE MAKING OF A MOTHER

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“There were no signs”
and following:
TTR,
131.

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“bear with submission”:
Daughters of the Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul,
Manual of the Children of Mary, for the Use of All the Establishments, Schools, and Orphan Asylums of the Sisters of Charity
(New York: P. J. Kennedy, 1878), 68–69.

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“impression of the suffragettes”:
LL,
The Kennedy Women,
109; see also interview with Rose Fitzgerald,
Boston Post,
August 17, 1911.

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Her father ridiculed Boston suffragists:
“House Votes for Suffrage,”
Boston Daily Globe,
May 22, 1919. Fitzgerald eventually changed his views in time to vote in favor of ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote when he was a congressman from Massachusetts for a brief few months in 1919.

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her suffragist mother-in-law:
John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, Brookline, Massachusetts, National Park Service,
http://www.nps.gov/jofi/photosmultimedia/virtualtour.htm
.

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participation in the Ace of Clubs:
TTR,
40–41.

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“life was flowing past”:
Interview with RFK in DKG, 301–2.

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Joe had always worked late:
Gail Cameron,
Rose: A Biography of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
(New York: Putnam, 1971), 91.

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“reputation for being a ladies’ man”:
Unidentified Fitzgerald relative, quoted by DKG, 303.

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“The old days are gone”:
Interview with RFK in DKG, 307.

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she could be an asset to him:
“Background Materials,” 26–28, RFKP, box 12.

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“the most successful luncheons”:
Ibid., 27–28.

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“Joe’s time was his own”:
TTR,
63.

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“the great new experience”
and following: Ibid., 64.

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“Why worry him?”:
“My Mother and Birth of Baby,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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if “you need more help”:
Interview with RFK in DKG, 307.

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“deliberate cultivation”:
Resolution 68 of the Lambeth Confer
ence, quoted in Lord Bertrand Dawson, “Sex and Marriage,”
Birth Control Review
5, no. 12 (December 1921): 7.

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“This idea of yours”
and following: Interview with Marie Green in DKG, 392.

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“a completely new
and different environment”:
“Joe in Show Business and Movies,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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“I had heard”:
Ibid.

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“trusted one another implicitly”
and following: Ibid.

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“formula for survival”:
Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe,
The Kennedy Case
(New York: Putnam, 1973), 41.

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“Gossip and slander and denunciation”:
TTR,
37.

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even more reason:
DKG, 304.

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“challenge” and “joy”:
Diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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“On [a mother’s] judgment”:
“Being a Mother,” diaries, RFKP, box 4.

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“an emaciated, worn out old hag”:
“Children Born at Home,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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“responsibility of the family”:
“My Mother and Birth of Baby,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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song called “Bed Bugs and Cooties”:
“Mrs. K’s 1923 Diary,” diaries, February 25, 1923, RFKP, box 5.

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“The children are fine”:
Telegram, JPK to RFK, April 8, 1923, JPKP, box 1.

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“Dear Rosa”:
Telegram, JPK to RFK, May 13, 1923, JPKP, box 1.

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“Gee, you’re a great mother”:
“Mrs. K’s 1923 Diary,” April 3, 1923, RFKP, box 5.

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“Home Manager . 
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 .”:
“The New Woman in the Home,” in Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil,
Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents,
vol. 2,
Since 1865
(New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009), 531–32.

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“The bottles for the babies”:
“Children Born at Home,” RFKP, box 5.

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“Kennedy desperation”:
“Card Catalogue,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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“emaciated . . . fat”:
“Children Born at Home,” RFKP, box 5.

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“great leaders in their country”:
“Leadership,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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“They learned to be winners”:
Ibid.

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“good old fashioned spanking”
and following: “Physical Punishment,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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The Moores:
See 1920 U.S. Census, Charlestown Precinct, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

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“There I was with seven children”:
Rose Kennedy, interview by Robert Coughlan, January 7, 1972, RFKP, box 10.

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“read the papers”:
“Children Born at Home,” RFKP, box 5.

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when Rosemary was a year and a half old:
TTR,
131.

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“could not steer a sled”:
Rose Kennedy, interview by Coughlan, January 14, 1972, RFKP, box 10.

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“I realized”:
“Diary Notes on Rosemary Kennedy,” RFKP, box 13.

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“the best little talker”:
Diaries, February 14, 1923, RFKP, box 1.

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Rosemary stuck her tongue out:
Diaries, April 1, 1923, RFKP, box 1.

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“I often wondered”:
“Married Life,” diaries, August 23, 1971, RFKP, box 5.

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“wasn’t a bring-them-to-the-bosom kind of mother”:
Interview with Paul Morgan in LL,
The Kennedy Women,
191.

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“When we have a number of children”:
“Different Children,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

3. SLIPPING BEHIND

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“deficient”:
Arnold Gesell,
What Can the Teacher Do for the Deficient Child? A Manual for Teachers in Rural and Graded Schools
(Hartford, Conn.: State Board of Education, 1918).

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“I had never heard”:
“Diary Notes on Rosemary Kennedy,” RFKP, box 13.

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“mental retardation was not”:
Ibid.

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“went away to school”:
Ibid.

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“one [child] may be smart”:
“Different Children,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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“I did not know”:
Hank Searls,
The Lost Prince: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
(New York: Ballantine, 1969), 37. See also school register for Edward Devotion School, Edward Devotion School Manuscripts Collection no. 337, folder 1, JFKPL; and “Diary Notes on Rosemary Kennedy,” RFKP, box 13.

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“I talked to our family doctor”
and following: “Diary Notes on Rosemary Kennedy,” RFKP, box 13; and Searls,
The Lost Prince,
37.

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“retardation” and “arrested growth”:
See, for instance, Elmer E. Liggett, “The Binet Tests and the Care of the Feebleminded,”
Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association
15, no. 5 (May 1918): 157–60; and Thomas G. MacLin, “Defective Mental Development with Special Reference to Cases Showing Delinquent Tendencies,”
Institution Quarterly
11, no. 4 (December 1920): 59.

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an IQ test:
“Diary Notes on Rosemary Kennedy,” RFKP, box 13.

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the Otis Intelligence Test:
Stephen Colvin, “Principles Underlying the Construction and Use of Intelligence Tests,” in
The Twenty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education: Intelligence Tests and Their Use,
ed. Guy Montrose Whipple (Bloomington, Ill.: Public School Publishing Company, 1922), 21–23.

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“I was told”:
“Diary Notes on Rosemary Kennedy,” RFKP, box 13.

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Eunice finally succumbed:
“Former Mayor’s Daughter Dies: Eunice J. Fitzgerald Martyr to War Work,”
Boston Herald,
September 26, 1923.

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Rose spent months:
“Around Town,”
Boston Post,
January 13, 1924.

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Traveling to Wall Street
and following: “Joe in Show Business and Movies,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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The family:
Joe McCarthy,
The Remarkable Kennedys
(New York: Dial Press, 1960), 22, 53.

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The large Riverdale estates:
Fred Ferretti, “Uptight in Riverdale,”
New York Magazine,
October 6, 1969, 31.

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“excellent boys school”:
“Joe in Show Business and Movies,” diaries, RFKP, box 5.

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“were like fish out of water”:
LL,
The Kennedy Women,
177–78.

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“Rosemary just plugged”:
Interview with Doris Hutchings in ibid., 177.

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“Her lack of coordination”:
TTR,
132.

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“heavy on her feet”:
“Diary Notebook B: Rosemary,” 1972, RFKP, box 5; see also Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “Hope for Retarded Children,”
Saturday Evening Post,
September 22, 1962.

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She could not cut meat:
Shriver, “Hope for Retarded Children.”

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“experts in mental deficiency”:
TTR,
132.

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“I think she was partly epileptic”:
EKS, interview by Robert Coughlan, February 26, 1972, RFKP, box 10.

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“agitated”:
Gloria Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson: An Autobiography
(New York: Pocket Books, 1980), 392–94.

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“I had seen him [Joe] angry”:
Ibid., 393.

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“a very sore subject”:
Ibid.

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In spite of Rose and Joe’s efforts:
TTR,
134.

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“idiots” . 
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 . “imbeciles” . 
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 . “morons”:
Knight Dunlap,
The Elements of Scientific Psychology
(St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby, 1922), 357.

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“purgatory”:
Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan,
Christmas in Purgatory: A Photographic Essay on Mental Retardation
(Syracuse, N.Y.: Human Policy Press, 1974).

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Dark, dirty
and following: Jeffry L. Geller and Maxine Harris,
Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840–1945
(New York: Doubleday, 1994), 320–21.

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“terribly frustrated”:
“Diary Notes on Rosemary Kennedy,” RFKP, box 13; see also
TTR,
132.

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“two classes”:
Robert Whitaker,
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Treatment of the Mentally Ill
(New York: Basic Books, 2002), 44.

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fears of the “immigrant hordes”:
Ibid., 48–53, 172.

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Some of the most prominent industrialists:
Ibid., 46–49.

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“visiting the iniquity”:
Leila Zenderland, “The Parable of
The Kallikak Family,
” in
Mental Retardation in America: A Reader,
ed. Steven Noll and James W. Trent Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 168–69. See also Deuteronomy 5:9.

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At that time:
The Code of Canon Law 913 of the Roman Catholic Church; see Charles George Herbermann, ed.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia
(New York: Encyclopedia Press, 1913). In 1995, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops restated its guidelines to be inclusive of people with disabilities.

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the Roman Catholic Church: See, for instance, Bernie Malone, “Catholic Church Denies Sacrament of Holy Communion to Down Syndrome Child,”
IrishCentral.com
,
January 19, 2012,
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/catholic-church-denies-sacrament-of-holy-communion-to-down-syndrome-child-137710088-237427501.html#
.
See, for instance, Bernie Malone, “Catholic Church Denies Sacrament of Holy Communion to Down Syndrome Child,”
IrishCentral.com
, January 19, 2012,
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/catholic-church-denies-sacrament-of-holy-communion-to-down-syndrome-child-137710088-237427501.html#
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