Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (1884 – 1981) was an American writer and a well-known socialite.

She was Roosevelt's eldest daughter and the first child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. Longworth lived a life of contradictions and turmoil.

Representative Nicholas Longworth III (Republican-Ohio), the party's leader and the 38th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, was shaky, and Paulina's only child, according to her, she was born in Idaho from her affair with Senator William Edgar Borah.

Married life

Alice Longworth III, a Republican U.S. House of Representatives member from Cincinnati, Ohio, who would later rise to become Speaker of the House, became engaged in December 1905, after returning to Washington from their diplomatic journeys. Both the two had been traveling in the same social circles for many years, but their friendship solidified during the Imperial Cruise. Longworth, the descendant of a socially wealthy Ohio family, lived 14 years as a playboy in Washington, D.C.

Their wedding took place in February 1906 and was the season's social event. More than a thousand people attended the wedding, but many thousands gathered outside for a glimpse of the bride. She wore a blue wedding dress and spruced the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception). The couple and their spouse married in Cuba immediately after the wedding, which also included a visit to the Longworths in Cincinnati. This was followed by trips to England and the Continent, including dinners with King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Georges Clemenceau, Lord Curzon, William Jennings Bryan. They bought a house on 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C., which is now the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Washington Legal Foundation.

Alice endorsed her father's presidential candidacy in the 1912 presidential election, though her husband stayed faithful to his mentor, President William Howard Taft, and ran for reelection on the Republican ticket. Nicholas Longworth barely lost his seat in the House of Representatives last year to Democratic challenger Stanley E. Bowdle.

Alice appeared in Longworth's own neighborhood during the campaign for her father's vice presidential nominee, Hiram Johnson. Longworth lost by 105 votes, but she joking that she was worth at least 100 votes (meaning she was the reason he lost). Nicholas Longworth was first elected in 1914 and remained in the House for the remainder of his life.

Alice's struggle against her husband resulted in a stalemate in their marriage that has lasted for a lifetime. She had several affairs during their marriage. Borah was the father of her daughter, Paulina Longworth (1925–1957), as described in Carol Felsenthal's biography of Alice, as well as Time journalist Rebecca Winters Keegan's book The Roosevelt Women.

Alice, who was well-known for her "brilliantly offensive" humour, was recalled in this traumatic situation, since she had originally intended to describe her daughter "Deborah" as in "de Borah." "Everybody called her [Paulina] "Aurora Borah Alice," a family friend says.

Later life

Alice Cooper cracked her hip and broke it in 1955. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1956, and although she underwent a mastectomy at the time, cancer was discovered in her other breast in 1970, necessitating a second mastectomy.

Alice was a lifelong member of the Republican Party, but her political convictions began to shift when she became closer to the Kennedy family and Lyndon Johnson. She voted Republican in 1964 and was known to be in favor of Bobby Kennedy in the 1968 Democratic primary.

Alice Nixon continued to support Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972 elections after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, just as she had during his 1960 campaign against John F. Kennedy. In a telephone call with Nixon in the Nixon White House tapes, she was caught adamantly condemning 1972 Democratic nominee George McGovern.

"You can't tell how great it is to be on the highest mountain peak if you've been to the lowest valley," Nixon said at the end of the Watergate affair. Alice, who spat curse words at her television screen as she watched her young father compare his expulsion from the White House (in the midst of a potential impeachment and possible criminal investigation) to her optimistic young father's death on the same day to sickness, angered her. Nixon, on the other hand, described her as "the most fascinating [conversationalist of the age]" and said, "No one, no matter how popular, will ever outshine her."

She remained cordial with Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, but Jimmy Carter's apparent lack of social grace prompted her not to meet him for the last sitting president in her lifetime. President Carter said in a formal address announcing her death, "She had style, she had compassion, and she had a sense of humor that kept generations of political newcomers to Washington wondering which was worse—to be skewered by her wit or to be dismissed by her."

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