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...hysterical until I got to the quote he attributed to Woodrow Wilson. In fact, it was Calvin Coolidge who said when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. It's worth noting that Silent Cal had a sense of humor so dry that Alice Roosevelt Longworth said he looked like he'd been weaned on a pickle. DAVE ESPOSITO State College...
...with organized labor, environmentalists and other allies to get their legislation passed when they controlled the House for 40 years. But the Democrats were never so organized. The Thursday Group's tort-reform effort, for example, featured daily meetings of dozens of lobbyists on the seventh floor of the Longworth House Office Building, a budget of several million dollars raised under the guidance of a General Motors executive, and a vote-counting operation that was led by former top lobbyists for Ronald Reagan (Alan Kranowitz) and George Bush (Nick Calio), who now work as lobbyists in the private sector. Says...
...politics and traveled the globe trying, with ( disastrous results, to re-enact their father's adventures. Theodore Jr. did end up as a hero of the D-day landings, but Kermit's story was tragic: his heavy drinking persisted, and he eventually killed himself. The maliciously funny Alice Roosevelt Longworth was the real original of the group, but as a woman, she was held back by the times...
...motto embroidered on a pillow in Alice Roosevelt Longworth's sitting room said, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me" . . . That's certainly not the credo of William A. Henry III, who wrote the main story. But the Pulitzer-prizewinning Henry understands the appeal of a juicy tale . . . "Whenever friends get together in a room," he observes, "the conversation may start out with East Germany or nuclear energy, but it gets around to people's divorces pretty quickly...
...dinner -- and a hardness to anyone who seemed less tough than she. Her shy, awkward daughter Paulina, for example, got little compassion. Alice let it be known that Paulina was the issue of her affair with Senator William Borah, not of her marriage to Speaker of the House Nick Longworth. It is not this home truth that evokes sympathy for Longworth, himself a philanderer and a drunk (as well as a superb amateur violinist), but the fact that he deeply loved the little girl. He died when she was six, however, and Paulina died of a combination of pills...