Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. She jokes now about losing her hair and not having bought a new dress since she was 80.

View the profiles of people named Alice Sturm. "Not in the sense of moral outrage," says Joanna. Well, if Alice Longworth wouldn't have married if she were young today, what would she do? Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). She seems rather smart. "Except LBJ," she chortles.

The Longworth house became a centre of Republican conviviality, especially during Nicholas Longworth’s speakership of the House of Representatives from 1925 to 1931.

(Linda Wheeler/The Washington Post) By Sally Quinn. Mrs. Longworth is as curious and observant as an interviewer, taking the situation in quickly, optimistically prepared to be entertained, amused, informed; but just as braced, graciously, of course, to be bored. After spending several hours with Mrs. Longworth it would seem that those who say she is a malicious person are unjustified.

She has been revered and feared, adored and detested, but there has never been a time when she has not been talked about.

"No, I never would marry again. When she had her second mastectomy several years ago, she remarked later that she was the "only topless octogenarian in Georgetown Hospital.".

What did Richard Nixon add to the … "Am I? Theodore Roosevelt, who was known for her wit and her political influence.

", Mrs. Longworth is reminded of a story of a friend of hers in the old days (the turn of the century) who, after being forbidden by her father to see a young man, dressed in men's clothes and cut her hair. But I might rather just spend a night with them, or an afternoon or something.

Her phone rings endlessly, she has callers to tea everyday, she still reads till 3 or 4 every morning, and she still goes with friends to dinner parties, which she adores. And of course there is The Pillow — the needlepoint pillow that has been so often noticed and to which her detractors point when they deplore her mischievous nature.

Those who don't know her — the public, or "the great rancid masses" as she likes to say — see her only as a formidable, amusing, highly entertaining, iconoclastic old lady. "It's irresistible," she admits later.

I've never been treated as inferior by any man.

"It's that dreadful desire of human beings to worship.".

"That," she says, "infuriates people.". The telephone conversation upstairs ceases. "But you're being esthetically outraged constantly.

Her granddaughter, Joanna Sturm, wearing pants and a sweater, has just entered the room and sinks into a chair next to the sofa as Janie brings in the tea tray: a silver kettle over a burner that Mrs. Longworth lights herself, bread and butter, cookies and a tiny fresh chocolate cake. "I'll tell you who I think is awfully nice," she says. Announcing our NEW encyclopedia for Kids!

"Still," she says, "usually I thought it better to keep away from joking about the lesbian thing since my father was President.

Occasionally she will leap up to point out some relic memento or photograph across the room. Oh yes, the Vice President.

Dette treet innehoder mye stoff utover rene slektstrefunksjoner, And later, in the midst of another conversation, Mrs. Longworth leans forward bursting with a less than flattering opinion about how Watergate has been handled by the President — for whom she has always until now, had only the highest praise. At 41 she had her only child, daughter Pauline, who was widowed at 26 and died at 31. Mrs. Longworth cannot stand pomposity or false piety and will go to great lengths to skewer someone guilty of taking himself too seriously.

Mrs. Longworth laughs heartily, "Homosexuality and lesbianism were very fashionable in those days," she says. (Family Book and Notes) under. Decidedly so. In accordance with the legal provisions, you can ask for the removal of your name and the name of your minor children.

It seems Margaret Cassini, Igor's mother and the daughter of a South American ambassador, had been a great friend of Alice Longworth's and they had taken a walk one day in the White House garden. She remained thereafter a fixture of the Washington scene, earning the nickname “Washington’s other monument.”. Her eyes are very clear. "Men's penises, my dear," she says very deliberately, leaning forward, waiting for a reaction.

They were very cruel about it and I was terrible sensitive.". I always get them mixed up but they seem to have a good time. ", She pauses, then reflects for a moment: "Still," she says, "I'm afraid I do believe in marriage. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, née Alice Lee Roosevelt, (born February 12, 1884, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 20, 1980, Washington, D.C.), American socialite and daughter of U.S. Pres. . Thank heavens I haven't gotten senile.

My family didn't, though.

"Oh, I can see it in the paper now," says Mrs. Longworth, "Dear old Mrs. Longworth sitting with her granddaughter talking about men's penises.". Mrs. Longworth keeps on munching, venturing opinions, trying out names for reaction.

He reminds me of Mr. Punch.

The sound reverberates through the house. Did Sally Quinn just say what we think she said about actress Lauren Bacall? Alice Sturm is born June 26, 1987.

Join Facebook to connect with Alice Sturm and others you may know. ", Mrs. Longworth also feels shy, she says, because she was the only child of Theodore Roosevelt and his first wife.

"I'm probably bad about people who have noble, fine and marvelous thoughts.

After his death in the latter year Alice Longworth maintained her Washington home and her position near the centre of national politics and capital social life.

Omissions? Theodore Roosevelt, who was known for her wit and her political influence. Her hands rest in her lap but she twists her fingers as her mind leaps about.

Corrections?

I've known them for a long, long time. "The Nixons are old friends. . She has been a favorite of Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, but there was no love lost between her and Warren Harding, and Woodrow Wilson. Over the backs and arms of the furniture are pieces of yellowing plastic, a not very earnest attempt at preservation.

"I'm full of respect for the younger generation," says her grandmother, smiling sanctimoniously at Joanna.

It was lovely.". The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.

Asks Joanna. I really wouldn't want to do anything pondering or noble or taking a position about someone again. And Julie Eisenhower has got something.

"You hardly advise it for me," says Joanna. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. . Joanna is tall with longish, light brown hair, a strong, pretty intelligent face and an open, easy, likable manner.

At the time of Alice Roosevelt’s birth, her father was a New York assemblyman.

"I have no problems," she will say.

All Roosevelts are exhibitionists," she says.

I must admit a sense of mischief does get hold of me from time to time. Two years later, in 1886, he re-married again to Edith Kermit Carow (born Aug. 16, 1861, died Sept. 30, 1948; age 87) in Dec. 1886 in London. I love spareribs.

Just like her grandmother Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Joanna gave birth to daughter Alice Roosevelt Sturm at age 41. After her marriage she devoted less time to the social scene and more to politics. mer.

Alice asked what, and the friend replied that a certain Miss Alice Barney was claiming to be in love with Alice. Having been a President's daughter and so often in the public eye, Mrs. Longworth has had her share of criticism. I've always liked her a great deal.

Would she, if she were Joanna's age today, have married? And then some things I think are terribly funny. . Isn't it strange how that upsets people?

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Her mother died two days after her birth, and during her father’s long absence in Dakota Territory she was reared by an aunt. But I'm really very shy. ", "Isn't it fascinating?"

", "Yes, that's true," says Mrs. Longworth. One suspects that the decay might even be cultivated, a sort of scene-setter, a proper milieu for the venerable inhabitant of the old Dupont Circle mansion that she has occupied for most of her life.

The long and fraught history of judging the President’s kids, After the service, raising a glass to Ben Bradlee. The rugs and upholstery are so frayed that in some spots the threads barely hang together. So far T.R. But among those in the inner sanctum those who frequent the Georgetown salons, those who refer to her as "Mrs. L," there is a sharp division of opinion about her which often causes unpleasant moments. She suddenly goes serious and says a bit stiffly.

"Never.

I laugh, I have a sense of humor, I like to tease. 's first marriage.

"Oh, just the people in this very room, my dear," she coos. "I may be an old crone but I can still put on the harness and lumber down the street.". Alice Roosevelt Longworth, née Alice Lee Roosevelt, (born February 12, 1884, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 20, 1980, Washington, D.C.), American socialite and daughter of U.S. Pres.



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