Extra Credit Questions

[RJNorton]

(02-26-2019 01:57 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Also, I question how much contact Robert and Tad had with each other, especially with the age differences.

I think a more pronounced older brother/younger brother relationship developed after the assassination when the family was in Chicago. For example, Mary tried to help Tad's speech impediment by having Tad go to a dentist who made a spring frame that was set in Tad's mouth. The dentist felt the spring frame would gradually force Tad's teeth into proper position. Robert recognized how uncomfortable it was for Tad and didn't think it was helping Tad's speech (making it worse if anything). So Robert sought the advice of another dentist who indicated the spring frame was not necessary. Robert wrote David Davis, "I have stopped his (Tad's) using it, and I have put him in charge of a man named McCoy of whom you may have heard, who teaches Elocution telling him to make him pronounce correctly - I think he is improving under McCoy's efforts."