Rosemary was mildly originally retarded. The old man had her lobotomized because of her active interest in sex.
What goes round comes round. The old man had a stroke and was a half paralyzed, wheelchair bound mute for 8 years until his death.
I hope he finally died painfully; he shouldn't be the only one of the family to go that way.
Guess they should have had them all lobotomized & even some of the younger ones, like Wm. Kennedy Smith! And the sexual legacy goes on............
It is karmic justice that Old Joe couldn't speak after his stroke. It is that very silence that forced JFK to become a better President than he would have been had his dad not had the stroke and still told him what to do. While he micro-managed everyone, Joe was an inverse indicator and always wrong in his choices. Not having to take advice from Joe probably saved the country.
I now find it interesting that we are at the end of the Kennedy "dynasty". Teddy, fat asinine slob that he is, is the last vestige of a dying breed. His last attempt to run the party because he can't run the country, ended with Kerry's defeat. Teddy as a adviser is about like having Old Joe at your side. I thought I would never see the day when a Kennedy wouldn't be running for President. Unless Patrick or Kathleen Townsend gets real popular real fast, it may be over.
The Kennedy cousin didn't get away with it in the Connecticut murder. This month Caroline is auctioning off the rest of her mother's stuff. The Senate seat that would have been almost guaranteed to John Jr. is now Hillary's.
Like Pompeii, title this chapter "The Last Days of Camelot". Or "What Goes Around, Comes Around".
Apparently only the male Kennedy children were allowed to be sex-crazed maniacs.