#alice roosevelt

[batcavescolony]

Zeus: POSEIDON CONTROL YOUR CHILD!

Poseidon: I can do one of two things. I can be the God of the Sea or I can control Perseus Jackson. I cannot possibly do both.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Ball Gown

Driscoll (United States)

c.1900

Gift of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1976

The MET (Accession Number: 1976.134.14a, b)

[lostfunzones]

Alice Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1903.

[deadpresidents]

In 1979, Alice Roosevelt Longworth was a long, long way away from her days as a wild child -- in every sense. But a wild child she had been. In her heyday, she could generate more newspaper print than her father, if she cared to. And this when her father just happened to be the President of the United States. She tipped off newspapers about where she'd be and what she'd be up to, then pocketed the cash for the info. Of course she did it to stick a finger in his eye. Of course she did it to get back at him for not loving her the way she needed.

She was born before women could vote, before cars were invented, before electricity lighted homes. She was brilliant before women were allowed to be brilliant. She was beautiful, rich, and privileged. But she was also shy and so learned how to control the media from offstage.

She carried a dagger, a snake, and the Constitution in her purse and became the first woman to drive a car forty-five miles an hour. When her father told her she could not smoke under his roof, she climbed to the top of the White House and smoked there, on the roof.

Coming of age when birth control was a matter of rhythm, she said, "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." Which included sex. When she was a teenager, her stepmother, Edith Carow, begged her husband, then the Governor of New York, to send his daughter to a boarding school because "she had the habit of running the streets uncontrolled with every boy in town." The wild child straight-out told her father, "If you send me, I will do something that will shame you. I tell you, I will."

-- White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America (BOOK | KINDLE) by Shelley Fraser Mickle, Imagine! Books/Charlesbridge Publishing, 2023

[fdrsamericanflagduckfloaty]

Sorry self-indulging for a minute but do you KNOW how much potential there is by the sheer thought of a wax Alice Roosevelt being included in the museum?

It's been brought up before on Tumblr but there's a good amount of Julia n' Octavius fic, but like. You want angst? You want confusion and hurt and chaos beyond manageable and snakes? You want family? That would be the force of Alice in the museum. Hell, so much more than.

Just... there is SO much potential, and SO many ideas in that dynamic, I think it's an untapped source and honestly. ... yeah. That's a goldmine of fic-able and angsty moments.

[gentlyepigrams]

“I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” – President Theodore Roosevelt on his eldest child Alice in 1902

[transpondster]

Teddy frequently chided his daughter for courting publicity, though she shot back that he had to be “the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.” When her father sent her scorching letters of reprimand, she promptly tossed them into the fire. And while celebrity found Alice whether she courted it or not, no one could accuse her of being changed by fame. She was utterly and thoroughly herself no matter how many pages the press dedicated to her. She raced through the streets of Washington in her own car, always unchaperoned and often accompanied by multiple young men. She wore trousers and makeup despite both being considered improper, and she was photographed placing bets and picking up her winnings at horse races. When Alice took up smoking, Teddy declared that no daughter of his would smoke under his roof. The ever-obedient Alice instead climbed up to smoke on top of the White House roof. A Los Angeles school superintendent even blamed Alice for creating a fad for cigarettes, which had “a demoralizing effect on the women of this country.” 

via Meet the President's Daughter, a "Wild Animal That Had Been Put Into Good Clothes"

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anyone else have historical crushes? here’s mine:

[nelc]

In 1902, this is 18-year-old Alice Roosevelt, accompanied by her long-haired Chihuahua, Leo. She also had a pet snake named Emily Spinach, whom she would wrap around one arm and take to parties. Unlike many women of her time, Alice was known for wearing pants, driving cars, smoking cigarettes, placing bets with bookies, dancing on rooftops, and partying all night. In just 15 months, she managed to attend 300 parties, 350 balls, and 407 dinners.

A friend of Alice's stepmother once remarked, "She's like a young wild animal that's been put into good clothes." Her stepmother went further, describing her as a "guttersnipe" who went "uncontrolled with every boy in town."

William Howard Taft banned her from the White House after Alice buried a voodoo doll (of Taft's wife) in the front yard. Woodrow Wilson also banned her after she told a very dirty joke (sadly, no record of the joke exists) about him in public.

Her father, Theodore Roosevelt, famously said, "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both."

Alice once told President Lyndon B. Johnson that she specifically wore wide-brimmed hats around him so that he could not kiss her.

During an interview in 1974, Alice described herself as a "hedonist."

She died in 1980 at the age of 96.

[rosey100]

Meet Alice aka Ali

I honestly remembered seeing this show two years ago and I never thought I would make my own Clone high oc

[twonutsinatrenchcoat]

Current Senior Quote Candidates:

Nobody knows what they’re doing

The secret to eternal youth is arrested development. —Alice Roosevelt Longworth

It doesn't matter if what makes you feel most inspired is tap-dancing on the feet of cancer patients, you're not the center of the known universe.

Having a window seat in the clown car doesn’t stop you from being a clown.

It’s okay that you’re not who you thought you would be

Serotonin? In this economy??

One comes across queer ducks sometimes. —Goethe

Some people are afraid of heights but everyone is afraid of falling

Time is all we have to give

Every place is a different language. —Susan Sontag

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Alice Roosevelt - President Teddy's daughter, classic old school wild girl, pre-movie star era celebrity, first babe famous for being famous?

Great article via Messy Nessy, my favorite cool things compilation site ..

[thefroglogs]

Can we talk about how Alice Roosevelt Longworth knew her daughter, Paula, wasn't from her husband but from the Senator of Idaho, William Borah, and her original plan for this was to name her daughter Deborah as in "de Borah"???? Can we talk about that please????

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[deadpresidents]

It has been a while since I last asked so what have you been reading recently?

Here is what I've been reading over the past couple months:

•Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination -- and Secret Diplomacy -- to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar

•The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Stuart A. Reid

•Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Mary Beard

•The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance and Catholic Reform (BOOK | KINDLE) Stefan Bauer

•Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848-2023 (BOOK | KINDLE) John M. Rist

•Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Uri Kaufman

•Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State (BOOK | KINDLE) Brian McGinty

•Who Believes Is Not Alone: My Life Beside Benedict XVI (BOOK | KINDLE) Archbishop Georg Gänswein with Saverio Gaeta

•White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America (BOOK | KINDLE) Shelley Fraser Mickle

•Madonna: A Rebel Life (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Mary Gabriel

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ALICE ROOSEVELT // SOCIALITE

“She was the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, and was known as a wild child. She smoked cigarettes in public, chewed gum, placed bets with bookies, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, and kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach, which she often wore wrapped around one arm and took to parties. Her father once said of her “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.””