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...hearing days, fighting for solitude so he can think. He reads the newspapers and staff memos with his orange juice and waffles. He used to have time to jog or play tennis. Now he runs up the four flights of stairs to his office in the Longworth Office Building. In the hour before the hearings start, he collects thoughts from his staff, plows through the volumes of evidence. He trots back down the stairs, enters the hearing room by a side door to avoid the press. He settles in his end seat. Now and then he kiddingly tells Rodino that...
...Kennedy caused heads to swivel when he was shown to a seat near the front of the church. Lady Bird Johnson was in the congregation. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the 90-year-old daughter of Teddy Roosevelt, walked gracefully to her seat, back straight, huge black hat firmly in place...
...Kennedy, Ed Muskie and "Scoop" Jackson, paid $125 for dinner at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to honor Elder Statesman Averell Harriman, 82, and raise money for party candidates. There was also a Republican maverick. Describing herself as "just an old, broken-down Bull Moose," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, said the dinner was. her first-ever Democratic bash. Marking Harriman's 40-year career as a politician and diplomat under four Presidents were members of their families: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Margaret Truman Daniel, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and a special friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to whom...
...Post, Nixon complained, rarely writes about the "great issues that will affect the future of the world in a responsible way." Mrs. Longworth, in fact, reads the Post every...
...mere four weeks after the New York Times announced that Sally Quinn would join its Washington bureau, the Quinn byline turned up on a Washington Post interview of Nonagenarian Alice Roosevelt Longworth. It seems that Sally is returning to her old beat, the Post's style section, after all. "One day," she said dramatically, "you'll know why I made the decision not to join the Times and why I couldn't tell you." Veteran reporters thought they already knew. Sally was persona non grata among Times staffers because of the allegedly inflated salary...