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  Alice Roosevelt Longworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Longworth felt that Harding was a crass man, barely educated, and ill-suited for the job, but they were on good terms (and she would become close to his vice president, Calvin Coolidge).
Roosevelt and Alice was banned from the White House for the remainder of their tenure.
Alice was among the mourners at Eleanor's funeral in Hyde Park in November 1962.
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 Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Grief-stricken, Roosevelt left his infant daughter Alice in the care of his sister and embarked on a journey of personal discovery to the violent Old West, a time that changed his life to the extent that it was credited with being the reason he later became president.
The diplomatic junket, and Alice's ability to keep the press at bay by becoming the center of attention, was a major reason for her father's successfully concluding the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 that ended the Russo-Japanese War, which eventually made her father the first-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner in American history.
Alice died in her Embassy Row house in 1980 of emphysema, pneumonia and a number of other extended illnesses at the age of 96.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Roosevelt was so distraught with the loss of his wife that he never spoke of her again and refused to have her name mentioned in his presence.
Longworth said that to do so "would be a fate worse than death itself." The widow Longworth maintained her stature in the community, socially and politically, garnering her the nickname of "Washington's Other Monument".
Alice Roosevelt Longworth died in her Embassy Row mansion in 1980 at the age of 96.
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 Alice Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Alice was 17 years old in 1901 when her father was sworn in as President of the United States.
Flaunting the rules that a circa 1900 well-bred young lady lived by, Alice not only smoked openly, she played poker with the boys, and received at least one summons from Washington police for driving her automobile too fast.
Alice celebrated July 4th, 1905 by using her revolver to take potshots at receding telephone poles from the back of a moving train.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth - Theodore Roosevelt Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
"Alice Blue" was a light blue with a hint of gray, to match her eyes.
The newspapers were filled with stories about her [Alice] -- where she went, what she said, whom she saw, and especially what she wore.
Many areas on the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) were painted "Alice Blue", and many of the materials to do with the ship back in the 1980's in preparation for its comminsioning had that color.
www.theodoreroosevelt.org /life/aliceblue.htm   (103 words)

  
 Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and wife of Ohio Senator Nicholas Longworth, recounted in her autobiography Crowded Hours the change in sentiment for the Eighteenth Amendment among her family and Washington society.
Alice was among the other Washington wets who were making beer in the basement and gin in the bathtub.
Alice was turned off from this behavior and moved toward a “Constitutional dry,” obeying the law because it was in the Constitution, not necessarily because she agreed with it.
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 Outspoken Alice: Every inch a Roosevelt (printable version)
Alice’s stepmother, Edith, often reminded her that the names of women with “upbringing” appeared in the newspapers only to note their birth, marriage or death.
Alice got a real boa constrictor as a pet and periodically wore it around her neck for the shock value.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth died in February 1980 at the age of 96.
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 Moondance: The Improper Power of Alice Roosevelt (Sue Marquette Poremba)
Theodore Roosevelt and Owen Wister were meeting in the oval office, or so the story goes, when Roosevelt's oldest child, teenaged Alice, waltzed through, munching a sandwich, with little regard to her father or his guest.
Alice's place in history is usually stuffed into books about her father or about life in the White House.
Longworth was by birth and by heart a Roosevelt.
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 Nicholas Longworth
A breif bio of Nicholas Longworth, the one-time Speaker of the House and son-in-law of a president.
Alice Roosevelt went along on the trip as the official representative of the president.
Alice, miserable and living with her in-laws, pushed for her husband’s re-election to Congress, which happened in 1914.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / ‘A Wild Animal in Good Clothes’
The woman was Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest child of Theodore Roosevelt, and this incident was recalled for me recently by her long-ago escort, the son of a girlhood friend, who also remembered his own relief when he finally got her settled on her train.
Longworth was always careful to keep her own private life off limits to strangers, and on the evidence of this new study, hers was a wise decision.
Alice’s first “hazy recollection” of the mysterious man her aunt insisted was her father came when, not yet three, she watched him return from a fox hunt during which he had characteristically shattered an arm and cut his face, trying to leap a five-foot stone wall.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980) - Find A Grave Memorial
Alice was seen placing bets at local racetracks then in public wearing a boa constrictor around her neck.
Legacy...An author, Alice and Eleanor were competing newspaper columnists, but Alice's "Capitol Comment" column was no match for her famous cousin's "My Day" and it was eventually cancelled.
After declining a dress rehearsal, Alice Roosevelt Longworth missed the bow repeatedly with the champagne bottle during the launch ceremony for the namesake nuclear submarine "Theodore Roosevelt," at Mare Island, San Francisco.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth biography
Alice Roosevelt was born on February 12, 1884.
She was the oldest child of Theodore Roosevelt, and the half sister to five younger siblings.
Alice died in 1980, at the age of 96.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth - Theodore Roosevelt's Daughter - Roosevelt Almanac
Widely known as the "other Washington Monument" and "Princess Alice", this rambunctious, independent, and irreverent American social icon once described her father as an individual who wanted to be "the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral".
In return, President Roosevelt once described his first child's irreverence by remarking that he could control the affairs of state, or control Alice, but could not possibly do both.
Alice, the only child of T.R. and his first wife Alice Hathaway Lee, was affectionately referred to by her siblings as "Sister".
www.theodore-roosevelt.com /alice.html   (204 words)

  
 References - Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth (November 5, 1869-April 9, 1931) was a prominent United States politician in the United States Republican Party during the first third of the 20th century.
Throughout their marriage, however, Longworth was known to have carried on his playboy ways with various women around the nations capital.
Longworth first came to political prominence in 1910, when he led the successful Republican revolt against the autocratic rule of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Joseph Gurney Cannon.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / BEFORE THE COLORS FADE: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Longworth’s husband a pillar of Cincinnati society, was chosen by her father, Theodore Roosevelt, to succeed him in the White House.
Longworth is a Teeny Bopper.” She was only mildly amused, but the fact is that seven decades before the emergence of the hippies and their teen-age satellites, she was “doing her thing” in defiance of middle-class shibboleths.
Longworth claims that this is because as a child at her father’s Long Island homestead, Sagamore Hill, she was often sent out on the piazza to summon her half brothers down at the stable.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
Infant Alice was born only two days before her mother died of Bright's disease, a kidney ailment that had not been diagnosed as it was masked by the pregnancy.
So Alice's earliest year's were spent living in Cove Neck, in the capable care of her Aunt Bamie, also called "Auntie Bye", TR's older sister.
The color, "Alice Blue" was highly fashionable, a light blue with a hint of gray to match her eyes.
www.theodoreroosevelt.org /life/familytree/AliceLongworth.htm   (478 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii.
Alice Hathaway Lee was only seventeen when she first met Theodore Roosevelt on Oct 18, 1878 Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (July 29, 1861 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts – February 14, 1884 in Manhattan, New York) was the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and the mother of their only child together, Alice...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. When the last one of the Rahl children was born in Hale, Michigan in 1906, Jennie, the oldest child, insisted she be named Alice Roosevelt Rahl, because she was born on the same day the President’s daughter was married.
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 O HI' O Defined - Ohio Politicians
Historians will long debate whether Nicholas Longworth was known better for his political career or his association by marriage to Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Longworth, born and raised in Cincinnati, practiced law there and served in the Ohio Legislature until his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1903.
A likeable man, Longworth’s popularity helped keep him at the top of the political game, while at the same time, his marriage to Alice Roosevelt kept him in the social spotlight and Washington D.C.’s gossip pages.
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 TIME.com: Swordplay Alice Roosevelt Longworth -- Apr. 25, 1988 -- Page 1
Such swordplay was what the world expected of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's oldest child, widely described as the "other Washington Monument," who died in 1980 at the age of 96.
Alice let it be known that Paulina was the issue of her affair with Senator William Borah, not of her marriage to Speaker of the House Nick Longworth.
It is not this home truth that evokes sympathy for Longworth, himself a philanderer and a drunk (as well as a superb amateur violinist), but the fact that he deeply loved the little girl.
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 Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 5th November, 1869.
A member of the Republican Party, Longworth was elected to Congress in 1902.
Longworth was majority leader (68th Congress) and Speaker of the House of Representatives (69th-71st Congress).
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 Alice roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Republican Teddy's Daughter) on the 1936 Election | code0range.net
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Republican Teddy's Daughter) on the 1936 Election
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Republican Teddy's Daughter) on the 1936 Election
Alice was a strong opponent of the New Deal.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Roosevelt, was born on 2nd December, 1884.
In February, 1906, Alice married Nicholas Longworth, a Congressman from Ohio.
Alice's home in Washington was a meeting place for politicians.
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 longworth Thoughts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This book's strength lies in Norman Longworth's deep knowledge of the multi-faceted nature of lifelong learning and the sympathetic, entertaining and highly readable way in which he describes the future of communities and their relationship to a globalised world.
When once informed by an Aide that Alice was smoking cigarettes atop the White House roof, "Father" was said to respond "I can run the country or I can control Alice, I cannot do both." She remained loyally devoted to him for all of the days of her life.
Alice was anxious to escape her parents by a marriage, like countless other girls from more humble backgrounds.
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 TIME.com: An American Princess -- Jul 3, 2006 -- Page 1
Young Alice, a rambunctious tomboy, considered herself "the outsider in the nursery" and often clashed with her prim stepmother and competed with the rest of the children for her father's attention.
Alice also grew to resent her do-gooder cousins Franklin and Eleanor, often mocking Eleanor's bucktoothed smile at dinner parties.
Alice would stay up late, teaching herself Greek and reading about science, propped beside a throw pillow embroidered with if you can't say something nice, then sit next to me. Until Alice died at 96 in 1980, Washington's elite were more than happy to take her up on that offer.
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 Alice Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice Hathaway Roosevelt née Lee (1861-1884), the first wife of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
Alice Lee Longworth née Roosevelt (1884-1980), the only child of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 KDHX Theatre Review - Bully Puplit: Theodore Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sterling focuses on Roosevelt from his days in New York politics, including stints as president of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners and governor of the state.
His tale is told here through the observances of his delightful daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a woman of fiery independence but also steadfast devotion to her father, a man she refers to as "perpetually six years old" because of his unceasing exuberance.
Julie Ganey is wonderfully enchanting as Alice, showing how Alice's taste for attention and what power can offer, along with her keen intelligence and impassioned spirit, made her very much her father's daughter.
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