The House of Kennedy(94)
Chapter 4
1 “Nine Children and Nine Million Dollars”: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), 95.
2 “Jolly Joe”: Richard J. Whalen, “Joseph P. Kennedy: A Portrait of the Founder,” Fortune, 1963 (Fortune Classics, April 10, 2011).
3 “royal family that England wanted”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 19.
4 “I would not be surprised”: Barbara Leaming, Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016), 31.
5 “an absolute liberation”: Paula Byrne, “‘Kick’ Kennedy: JFK’s Forgotten Sister,” Telegraph (UK), May 20, 2016.
6 “not just a Kennedy girl”: Leaming, Kick Kennedy, 63.
7 “worth shedding blood for”: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 63.
8 “brought it on themselves”: Phillip Whitehead, “The Bootleg Politician: He Could Have Anything He Wanted, Except the Thing He Wanted Most,” Independent (UK), October 11, 1992.
9 Joe’s call to FDR: E. Fuller Torrey, MD, American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 1.
10 Rosemary stays in UK: Torrey, American Psychosis, 2.
11 “bring about a better understanding”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 63.
12 “what young Joe is going to do”: Cari Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny,” Vanity Fair, December 2004.
13 “a little family dinner”: Klein, The Kennedy Curse, 121.
14 “Nine hostages to fortune”: Klein, 123.
PART TWO
The Two Roses: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and
Rose Marie “Rosemary” Kennedy
Chapter 5
1 “crazy about traveling”: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), 23.
2 “Gee, you’re a great mother”: Barbara A. Perry, “Like Mother, Like Son? Ten Traits JFK Inherited from Rose Kennedy,” UVAToday, May 25, 2019.
3 “on her knees”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 97.
4 “I wish I was sixteen”: Godfrey Hodgson, “Obituary: Rose Kennedy,” Independent (UK), January 24, 1995.
5 “My father didn’t think”: Rose Kennedy Remembers: Transcript of interview with Rose Kennedy for the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Service (New York: Time-Life Multimedia, 1975).
6 “screaming and yelling”: Kate Clifford Larson, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 14–15.
7 “no romance outside of procreation”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 392.
8 Spanish influenza: “1918 Pandemic (H1N1 Virus),” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
9 Dr. Frederick Good: Larson, Rosemary, 3–4.
10 “a beautiful child”: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “Hope for Retarded Children,” Saturday Evening Post, September 22, 1962.
11 “good idea to be around quite often”: Perry, Rose Kennedy, 57.
12 “I had never heard of a retarded child”: Larson, Rosemary, 43.
13 “What can they do for her”: Shriver, “Hope for Retarded Children.”
14 “mother of a great son or daughter”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 415.
Chapter 6
1 “I had heard that chorus girls were gay, but evil”: Kate Clifford Larson, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 32.
2 “During the darkest days”: Cari Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny,” Vanity Fair, December 2004.
3 “bigger and better”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 65.
4 “Goethe or Voltaire”: Kevin Cullen, “Finding Her Way in the Clan: Diaries Reveal a More Complex Kennedy Matriarch,” Boston Globe, May 13, 2007.
5 Spankings: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, 116.
6 Children roughhousing: Larson, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, 39.
7 “Joe banging Jack’s head”: Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 39.
8 Rosemary’s love of music: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “Hope for Retarded Children,” Saturday Evening Post, September 22, 1962.
9 “child rearing as a profession”: Cullen, “Finding Her Way in the Clan.”
10 “something quite special”: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, 78.
11 “saddle shoes”: Kennedy, 103.
12 “Mother is a perfectionist”: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013), 1.
13 “charm a bird off a tree”: Perry, Rose Kennedy, 75.
14 “the young Kennedys”: Laurence Leamer, The Kennedy Women (New York: Villard Books, 1994), 209–10.