Alice Roosevelt

Heres what happened in Alice Roosevelt's life.
Her mother, Alice, died 2 days after and her grandmother, Theodor's mother, Martha died eleven hours prior to her death. This left her father grief stricken and therefore growing up she was called "Baby Lee." Theodor then went traveling to North Dakota to overcome his grief while there he left Alice with his sister Anna, also called Bamie. Upon remarrying Alice was returned to Theodor and his new wife Edith. They had five other children. Throughout her life her father and her didn't see eye to eye so she was constantly shuffled from the homes of Bamie and her maternal grandparents. Alice's relationship with her step mother was no better than that with her father, for her stepmother often commented that if her mother had lived that she would have been bored with Theodor. Although her home life wasn't good it was her stepmothers persistence that made it so that Alice would not be wheelchair ridden. When Alice came down with a mild form of polio in one leg, Edith forced her to wear leg braces to sleep. Alice was spoiled while growing up and when her father was the governor of New York her parents wanted her to attend a school there. Upon hearing this she said, " If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will."

When her father took office in 1901 she instantly became a fashion icon. She coined the color "Alice blue" and started a women's clothing trend when she wore a blue dress. She was proud of her father but she was upset that his presidency would take his time away from her. She was also known as a rule breaker for she smoked in public, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a snake in the white house, and placed bids with a bookie.
When her father had to settle the uproar in china he sent Alice with Secretary of War, William Howard Taft to lead the negotiations. Alice played her role as distraction well by making headlines wherever she went.
On the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the pool fully clothed and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. Bobby Kennedy later stated that the incident was outrageous for the time, Alice replied to this later in her autobiography, Crowded Hours in which she stated that her cloths were no different from the swim suits of the time. Due to the fact that she brought tons of silk and wore a strand of pearls that were given to her by the Cuban government for the rest of her life, her trip was dubbed by the press "Alice in Plunder Land".
Alice would also often interrupt meetings of her father, barging into the oval office. To which her father said,"I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both."

Upon returning to Washington in December 1905 Alice got engaged to Nicolas Longworth III, a senator who was known as a playboy. The following February they had their wedding with over a thousand invited guests and a thousand more outside, hoping to see the bride. Alice was a blue wedding dress and used a borrowed military sword to cut the wedding cake. They had their honeymoon in Cuba, followed by other travels to Europe before returning to live at 2009 Massachusetts Av. N.W, Washington D.C., now the headquarters of the Washington Legal Foundation.
In the 1912 elections she supported her father's candidacy going against her husband, who was supporting Taft. This caused a rift between them and resulted in her having numerous affairs during their marriage. One such affair was with Senator William Borah, who is the father of her daughter Paulina Longworth.
Alice had a devilish sense of humor. She wanted to name her daughter "Deborah" as in "de Borah" and it was said that they called her "Aurora Borah Alice". Alice also once set a tack on the seat of a man in the house of representatives.

When the Roosevelt's had to move out of the White house Alice buried a voodoo doll of Mrs. Taft in the front yard. Alice also taunted the First lady so much that she had her banned from the White house. She was also banned during the Wilson administration. Alice also didn't care for the First lady during the Harding Administration, Florence Harding, for she had taking her best friend, Evalyn Walsh McLean, from her.
Her husband died in 1931. Upon his death Alice was asked if she would run for his seat, she did not for she didn't like public speaking.
During the great depression she appeared in tobacco commercials and wrote her autobiography to stay afloat.

Throughout her life she maintained her political and social favor and as a result earned the title "the other Washington Monument". She was a big part of the Republican party and said in the 1940 elections that she would "rather vote for Hitler than vote for Franklin for a third term."
Paulina married Alexander McCormick Strum and had a daughter, Johanna. Alexander died in 1951 followed by Paulina in 1957, due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Alice then fought and won custody of her granddaughter and, unlike with her own child, doted and was very close to her granddaughter.

Throughout her life she was interested in politics. She would advise her father during his presidency and supported her brother Ted when he ran for governor of New York. However when FDR ran for president in 1932 she publicly opposed it saying, "Politically, this 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 Republican... I am going to vote for Hoover... If I were not a Republican, I would still vote for Mr. Hoover this time."
Although she did not support John F. Kennedy in the election she became enamored with their lives and saw how amusing Democrats could be. This swayed her vote from Republican to Democratic in 1968. She also became good friends with Richard Nixon until the conclusion of watergate and his speech resigning from the white house, because of his use of her fathers words.

In 1950 Alice's health began to fail her. In 1955, she fell and broke a hip. In 1956, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a successful mastectomy. In 1960 she went to a physician and was diagnosed with emphysema, a result of her heavy smoking.  Then in 1970 it was discovered that she had breast cancer in her other breast which required another mastectomy.
Alice died February 20, 1980 of emphysema and pneumonia, she is buried at Rock Creek Cemetery. To mark her death, President Carter wrote,"She had style, she had grace, and she had a sense of humor that kept the generations of political newcomers to Washington wondering which was worse - to be skewered by her wit or to be ignored by her."

Some of her best quotable comments: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me." To senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party "Here's my blind date. Im going to call you Alice", she sarcastically said "Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not." She informed President Lyndon B. Johnson that she wore-brimmed hats so he couldn't kiss her. On another occasion, asked by a Klu Klux Klansman in full regalia to take his word for something, Alice refused, saying "I never trust a man under sheets, And when a well-known Washington senator was discovered to have been having an affair with a young woman less than half his age, she quipped, "You can't make a soufflé rise twice" 

Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/review/Mallon-t.html?_r=1&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/alice.html