Children of the Courthouse: Alice

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In later years, Alice expressed admiration for her stepmother's sense of humor and stated that they had shared similar literary tastes. In her autobiography Crowded Hours , Alice wrote of Edith Carow, "That I was the child of another marriage was a simple fact and made a situation that had to be coped with, and Mother coped with it with a fairness and charm and intelligence which she has to a greater degree than almost any one else I know. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach Emily after her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.

It was the largest such diplomatic mission thus far, composed of 23 congressmen including her future husband Nicholas Longworth , seven senators, diplomats, officials and businessmen. During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship's pool fully clothed, and coaxed Congressman Longworth to join her in the water. Once, a White House visitor commented on Alice's frequent interruptions to the Oval Office , often to offer political advice.

The exhausted president commented to his friend, author Owen Wister , after her third interruption to their conversation and threatening to throw her 'out the window', "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both. Alice was the center of attention in the social context of her father's presidency, and she thrived on the attention, even as she chafed at some of the restrictions such attention placed on her.

In this, Alice resembled her father. She later said of Theodore, "He wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening. House of Representatives member from Cincinnati, Ohio , who ultimately would rise to become Speaker of the House. The two had travelled in the same social circles for several years, but their relationship solidified during the Imperial Cruise.

A scion of a socially prominent Ohio family, Longworth was 14 years her senior and had a reputation as a Washington D. Their wedding took place in February and was the social event of the season. It was attended by more than a thousand guests with many thousands gathered outside hoping for a glimpse of the bride. She wore a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword borrowed from a military aide attending the reception.

This was followed by travels to England and the Continent which included having dinners with many notables of the day: Alice publicly supported her father's Bull Moose presidential candidacy, while her husband stayed loyal to his mentor, President Taft. During that election cycle, she appeared on stage with her father's vice presidential candidate, Hiram Johnson , in Longworth's own district.

Longworth later lost by about votes and she joked that she was worth at least votes meaning she was the reason he lost. However, he was elected again in and stayed in the House for the rest of his life. Alice's campaign against her husband caused a permanent chill in her marriage. During their marriage, she carried on numerous affairs. Alice was renowned for her "brilliantly malicious" humor, even in this sensitive situation, since she had originally wanted to name her daughter "Deborah," as in "de Borah.

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On May 11, , Alice similarly amused herself in the Capitol's gallery at the House of Representatives by placing a tack on the chair of an unknown but "middle-aged" and "dignified" gentleman. Upon encountering the tack, "like the burst of a bubble on the fountain, like the bolt from the blue, like the ball from the cannon," the unfortunate fellow leapt up in pain and surprise while she looked away. During Woodrow Wilson 's administration from which she was banned in for a bawdy joke at Wilson's expense , Alice worked against the entry of the United States into the League of Nations.

During the Great Depression , when she, like many other Americans, found her fortunes reversed, Alice appeared in tobacco advertisements to raise money.

She also published an autobiography, Crowded Hours. The book sold well and received rave reviews. TIME Magazine praised its "insouciant vitality. Alice's wit could have a political effect on friend and foe alike. When columnist and cousin Joseph Wright Alsop V claimed that there was grass-roots support for Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie , the Republican hope to defeat F.

Alexander died in Paulina herself died in due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Not very long before Paulina's death, she and Alice had discussed the care of Joanna in case of such an event. Alice fought for and won the custody of her granddaughter, whom she raised. In contrast to Alice's relationship with her daughter, she doted on her granddaughter, and the two were very close.

In an article in American Heritage in , Joanna was described as a "highly attractive and intellectual twenty-two-year-old" and was called "a notable contributor to Mrs. The bonds between them are twin cables of devotion and a healthy respect for each other's tongue. From an early age, Alice was interested in politics. When advancing age and illness incapacitated her Aunt Bamie, Alice stepped into her place as an unofficial political adviser to her father.

She warned her father against challenging the renomination of William Howard Taft in Alice took a hard-line view of the Democrats and in her youth sympathized with the conservative wing of the Republican Party. She supported her half-brother Ted when he ran for governor of New York in Roosevelt ran for president in , Alice publicly opposed his candidacy.

Writing in the Ladies' Home Journal in October , she said of FDR, "Politically, his branch of the family and ours have always been in different camps, and the same surname is about all we have in common I am a Republican I am going to vote for Hoover If I were not a Republican, I would still vote for Mr.

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Although Alice did not support John F. Kennedy in the election , she became very enamored of the Kennedy family and "learned how amusing and attractive Democrats could be. When Alice privately made fun of his scaling the newly named Mount Kennedy in Canada, he was not amused. She even admitted to voting for President Lyndon Johnson over Senator Barry Goldwater in because she believed Goldwater was too mean.

Alice developed a genuine friendship with Richard Nixon when he was vice president, and when he returned to California after Eisenhower's second term, she kept in touch and did not consider his political career to be over.

Alice encouraged Nixon to reenter politics and continued to invite him to her famous dinners. Nixon returned these favors by inviting her to his first formal White House dinner and to the wedding of his daughter Tricia Nixon. In , Alice fell and suffered a broken hip.

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In , she was diagnosed with breast cancer , and though she successfully underwent a mastectomy at the time, cancer was found in her other breast in , requiring a second mastectomy. Alice was a lifelong member of the Republican party. Yet her political sympathies began to change when she became close to the Kennedy family and Lyndon Johnson.

She voted Democratic in and was known to be supporting Bobby Kennedy in the Democratic primary.

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It is possible her change in political leanings was the result of the social upheavals occurring in American society at the same time. Beginning in the late s and continuing into the s, the struggle of African-Americans for social and legal equality could not have escaped the notice of a woman always known for approaching everyone she first met with respect, without regard for station in life. As an example of her attitudes on race, in her black chauffeur Richard Turner, who was also one of her best friends, was driving Alice to an appointment.

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During the trip, Turner pulled out in front of a taxi , and the driver got out and demanded to know of Turner, "What do you think you're doing, you black bastard? After Robert Kennedy was assassinated in , Alice again supported her friend Richard Nixon , just as she had done in his campaign against John F. Her long friendship with Nixon ended at the conclusion of the Watergate Scandal, specifically when Nixon quoted her father's diary at his resignation, saying, "Only if you've been to the lowest valley can you know how great it is to be on the highest mountain top.

Nixon, however, called her "the most interesting [conversationalist of the age]" and said, "No one, no matter how famous, could ever outshine her.

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