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...From the beginning of the Republic," House Speaker Nicholas Longworth once complained, "it has been the duty of every freeborn humorist to make jokes at us." He may have had in mind Mark Twain's crack that Congress is our only native American criminal class. But there have been times in recent years when the entire nation could have been indicted for contempt of Congress...
...well-wishers have ranged from Emperor Hirohito of Japan and West German President Walter Scheel, to schoolchildren who laboriously copied out their letters of friendship. A number of women who have also undergone mastectomies-including Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the 90-year-old daughter of Teddy Roosevelt-took the time to write. Mrs. Ford's illness also produced a cornucopia of gifts, which have generally been passed along to hospitals, plus contributions in her name, including a $5,000 check to the American Cancer Society...
...part on her own self-image. Betty Ford has an open and natural attitude: "I told Jerry the other day, 'You've got a better figure than I have.' He's trying to lose weight, but all I need is a little padding." Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, jokes about her two mastectomies and refers to herself as Washington's only "topless nonagenarian." Julia Child, television's "French Chef has a no-nonsense attitude about her operation, which she revealed publicly for the first time last week. Says...
Particularly heartening were hundreds of messages from women who had undergone the same operation. One notable correspondent: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, who had two mastectomies years...
...really tested, when you take some knocks and some disappointments, when sadness comes." Like much else in the speech, the point of his analogy was not clear when he first made it and in the end was not really appropriate, as none other than Alice Roosevelt Longworth, T.R.'s daughter, quickly noted. Her father, she said, had been a young man when his beloved Alice died, with his work ahead of him; Nixon, 61, has his own work behind...