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...slightly manic mansion, with friends, newsmen, relatives, and buddies from old political and real wars bustling in and out. Among the Nixons' guests during their first fortnight were a few personal friends of long standing, such as J. Edgar Hoover, and some social monuments like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 84, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter. Instead of traipsing through Georgetown or the Virginia suburbs on evenings or weekends when the White House was quiet, the Nixons have been dining with each other-something of a novelty for them...
Stirrings. Behind the convention scene of mixed turmoil and torpor (from her pinnacle of 84 years, Alice Roosevelt Longworth pronounced it "soporific"), there was a good deal of political jostling and even some drama. During the three days leading up to the Wednesday-night balloting, the main maneuvering centered on three elements: 1) a handful of uncommitted delegations, of which Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were the most important; 2) the South, which was largely in Nixon's camp already but vulnerable to Reagan; and 3) Nixon's choice of a running mate...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, now 84, fondly recalls the Willard's cotillions. But over the years the tradition, like the plumbing, began to corrode. Newer and better hotels opened. The automobile made it unnecessary to be a five-minute walk from the offices of power. The riots that flared last spring in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination and the disruptions caused by the Poor People's Campaign virtually emptied the Willard of tourists. Last week the management, having lost $1,250,000 since 1965 and unable to meet its bills, abruptly shut down what Sandburg...
...felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made the German company bullish on bears; the following year it sold 974,000 cuddly Teddy bears...
...posters throughout the city, charging the Congressman with "conspiracy against children." Mills refused to see a delegation of the protesters. "I don't convene the committee on anyone's demands, not even the President's," he declared quite accurately. When the demonstrators began singing outside the Longworth House Office Building, ignoring warnings that they were breaking a law, police finally herded them into vans...