[andie74]

In 1941, Joseph Kennedy, worried his daughter's mild mental retardation would lead her into situations that could damage the family's reputation, arranged for Rosemary to have a lobotomy. She was 23. Kennedy became president in 1960.

Beat me to it. Apparently, the author is a product of the public education system...now she could have had the lobotomy a year after her brother became president, but even with that, the numbers don't add up.

[Military family member]

The author also has no evidence to attribute to this claim. As my father is fond of saying..."In God we Trust..Everyone else needs data."

[BradyLS]

That's the sort of "newspeak" sentence that makes you give up on the article. And once that is done, Rosemary sinks further into obscurity-- a backhanded favor to the Kennedys.