Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The press frequently subjected Caustic wit of favorite active American socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.

This prominent oldest child wrote. She was the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. Two days after her birth, her mother died from Bright's Disease (kidney failure).

Alice led an unconventional and controversial life. During her shaky marriage to Nicholas Longworth III, Republican representative of Ohio, a leader of Republican Party, and forty-third Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, her affair with William Edgar Borah, senator of Idaho, allegedly resulted in Paulina Longworth, her only child . She temporarily identified as a Democrat during the Administrations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson and identified as a hedonist in a televised interview on "60 Minutes" with Eric Sevareid, on 17 February 1974.

As one of most notorious insiders of Washington, “Mrs. L” (as she wished to be called) reined over political life for six decades from her home on Massachusetts Avenue. The political elite sought her advice and opinions at her famous dinner and tea parties. An invitation to one of her dinner parties was the most coveted invitation in town. She was given the epitaph “the second Washington monument.” She was famous for her conversational ability.