#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)

[sarahreesbrennan]

Is the name Victoria Brocolli a reference yo Alice Roosevelt’s snake: Emily Spinach????

Yes it is! Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest daughter Alice had a snake she would take around with her and say to politicians ‘Meet my aunt Emily.’ I wanted to give Rae a pet snake because of Snakes as Evil Themes, and yet have Victoria also be a pet and not just part of an evil aesthetic. And by giving something a name, you give it a life. (Pratchett.)

Theodore Roosevelt said ‘I can be President, or I can control Alice’ and Alice Roosevelt famously said ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit here by me.’ Which encapsulates some ladies who can’t be tamed even by those running a country, and the idea of people who might not be so nice congregating together.

I didn’t know Victoria Broccoli would turn out to be such a star, though. She’s in every official piece of art and both covers. I was given a bracelet with her name on it.

[diemelusine]

Hand-tinted photograph of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1903) by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress.

[tomoleary]

Christian Slade “Presidential Pets” Calvin Coolidge and wallaby, bear, and hippo, President Andrew Johnson and the mice, FDR’s dog Fala, President Bush and his dogs Barney and Spot, Benjamin Harrison and Whiskers the Goat, William Taft and Pauline Wayne the cow, Alice Roosevelt and Emily Spinach the snake, Chelsea Clinton and Socks the cat, Teddy Roosevelt and badger.

[celiaserene]

'Liaa! *grins, wrapping an arm around her shoulder and pulling her closer* For the sake of this- we can, like, ignore the fact I'm a day or two late, right?

~ @alice-roosevelt

Lee! *grins and then pauses* Day late? For what? *blinks* Oooihhhhhh... *winks* No hard feelings, promise. *shrugs* Personally, never actually did much for it, so I hadn't expected anything.

[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

[lostfunzones]

Alice Roosevelt by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1903.

[frankidacre]

As a Roosevelt Stan do you fw Taft or nah. And what do you think of Alice (the daughter, but the wife was also interesting too)

Honestly as a Roosevelt fan who happens to be Filipino-American… I can actually forgive Taft more 💀I loveeee Taft actually <3 For the most part he’s a lovely and sweet guy tooooooo!!! I feel bad that he got peer pressured into being president (suffering from success LMAO) but I’m glad he still got his dream job as a SCOTUS justice in the end!!! Also I lowkey crack-ship him with Roosevelt 💀💀💀💀 they’re just toxic lovers to enemies to lovers yaoi…. do you see the vision…

As for Alice Roosevelt!!!! I LOVE HER. She’s truly representative of all of us girls with father issues. I feel her. I don’t want to reduce her to that though so I will note that I fond her beef with Eleanor very funny (THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGGG!!) but omg Alice is such a DIVA!!!! They named a very pretty color after her too!!!

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

anyone else have historical crushes? here’s mine:

[ted-calling-orson]

so I thought it would be silly if I turned the roosevelt family into warrior cats and added a rose theming to their names but my god it was harder than I thought

if I missed your favorite roosevelt then pls inform me and I’ll try to think of a name for them

[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

[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.

[damnghouligans]

The irony behind Robotnik’s design being based on national parks daddy // crazy xenophobic racist Teddy Roosevelt isn’t lost on me. One, because eggman couldn’t give two shits about the environment. And two, because both men’s biggest ops are/were teenaged rebels known for their signature shades of blue.

[celiaserene]

So, *grins, dramatically posing in the dorm doorway* ready to get dressed up?

~ @alice-roosevelt

*gasps and whirls around* Oh, hell yeah! *claps and runs up* Where do we start?