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...wedding too). Luci at one point startled FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by planting a resounding kiss on his cheek. Lynda Johnson Robb and her husband Chuck were in deep conversation with Ralph Nader. The sentimentality of the day was relieved by gleefully acerbic Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 87, a White House bride in 1906. Asked by TIME'S Bonnie Angelo if the wedding brought back memories, she replied: "No, it doesn't bring back one goddamned memory. I was married before the days of Hollywood. This is quite a production." The President danced with Tricia to Thank Heaven...
Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice, who, at 87, will be a Nixon guest on Saturday, discovered as much in 1906 when she packed in 680 for her marriage to Congressman Nicholas Longworth; some of the ladies began to swoon in the crush...
English Actor-Author Peter Bull, whose Teddy Bear Book has had considerable coterie success in Britain, was delighted to get an invitation to tea with Washington's grandest grande dame, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, after whose father, President Teddy Roosevelt, the cuddly stuffed animals were named. Would she mind, he asked, if he brought along a couple of the bears? She would indeed, Bull was informed. "I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear." Then she dashed any hopes Author Bull may have...
Going beyond the train itself, the book includes interviews with the extraordinary range of people Kennedy knew, from Art Buchwald and Cesar Chavez to Tom Hayden and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. It is hard to think of any other politician whose acquaintanceships covered the entire spectrum of American life and thought. "Bobby was a man who knew how to use other men," says Author Theodore White. "He had impeccable taste in men. There are certain guys who've got good taste in women; others have got good taste in men ... I wouldn't characterize Bobby as an intellectual...
...most enlightening interviews are with those people who, like Lowell, could never be considered Kennedy camp followers. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, for instance, thinks that the real difference between Jack and Bobby would have become obvious only with the years. "I see Jack in older years as the nice little rosy-faced Irishman with the clay pipe in his mouth, a rather nice broth of a boy. Not Bobby. Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest." Radical Tom Hayden explains-and explains away -Kennedy's admiration for Che Guevara: "Bobby Kennedy was attracted to strong human beings and unorthodox people...