Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was the oldest child of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. She was the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee.
Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Despite her love for her legendary father, she proved to be almost nothing like him. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth (Republican-Ohio), a party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and the couple's only child was a result of her affair with Senator William Borah of Idaho. She temporarily became a Democrat during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and proudly boasted in a 60 Minutes interview with Eric Sevareid, televised on February 17, 1974, that she was a "hedonist".
Read more about Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Childhood, Relationship With Step-mother Edith Carow, Father's Presidency, Married Life, Post-Roosevelt Presidency, "The Other Washington Monument", Political Connections, Later Life
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“You can’t make a souffle rise twice.”
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980)
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—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“You can’t make a souffle rise twice.”
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980)