Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Mm-hmm.

And, um, I can tell you my character's name is Alice.

Oh.

Which I love.

And then I saw the title, and I was like, "Oh, I'm gonna buy it." And then I finished it in, like, a day.

What historical figure would you wanna sit down and have dinner with tonight?

Alice Roosevelt.

She was just amazing, and she, like, did not conform, and she was kind of, like, the odd man out in her family.

CHAPTER VI.

A MOTOR TO ALICE LONGWORTH There's a special quality about a December sunset, the ruffles of red gold gradually untightening, the congested mauve islands on a transparent sea of green, the ultimate luminous primrose dissolving into violet powder, and then the cold biting night lit up by strange patches of color that have somehow been forgotten in the sky.

eve was walking home her quick defiant movements challenging the evening her head bent slightly forward her chin almost touching her muff while her eyes shone and her cheeks glowed and her lithe figure seemed almost to be cutting through the icy air this is happiness she thought exultantly this bitter winter stimulus i feel so light as if my heart and my mind were empty only my body is quivering with life the pure life of physical fitness why why think or feel or look forward She doubled her pace until her feet seemed to be skimming the road.

I feel like a duck and a drake.

Will you say it already? Suffrage jet.

suffragette shit suffragette all right it says suffragette okay including suffragette susan b anthony writer mark twain and booker t washington principal of the tuskegee institute well connected among elite societies she was commissioned by magazines to do celebrity portraits such as alice roosevelt's wedding portrait she was dubbed the photographer to the american court She photographed Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the children of President Theodore Teddy Roosevelt playing with their pet pony at the White House, and the gardens of Edith Wharton's famous villa near Paris.

I wonder if they had anything to do with Wharton School.

I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole.

The takeover precipitated that, yes.

I mentioned just because while I was reading about George Downing, he reminded me of Alice Roosevelt, who, legend says, had a phrase, if you haven't got anything good to say about anybody, come sit by me.

And George Downing is that scale of character.

All right, there's a second Dutch war now, and an admiral named Michael de Ruyter, very effective admiral.

Her other credits include By the Grace of Bob, Trading Ages, and the Youth Roundtable Project.

She's also slated to produce the feature Gadfly in 2028, which she co-wrote about Alice Longworth Roosevelt.

Heather studied film at Georgia State University and holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in international relations, specializing in the Middle East.

Today, she calls Richmond home with her daughter Jayka and her pup Coda.

Okay, fine.

And Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt are coming home.

Nicholas...

Longworth.

Longworth and Alice Roosevelt hear the bomb as well and they're told by a policeman and they rush to the scene.

So this is a major crisis in the Wilson administration.

It happens in June of 2019, 2019, the year of – 1919.

Listen, I'm going to tell you where that came from.

Alice Roosevelt.

How's that for a full circle moment? How's that

for full circle? How is Alice? I've thought of her often this past week.

I'm powering through.

But I have now found, and it will not surprise you, and people have said it's fantastic.

Somebody messaged me last week, a historical fiction novel based on Alice Roosevelt called American Princess.

Well, there goes your week.

Okay.

The phrase, if you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me, is attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the sharp-tongued daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Oh,

Theodore Roosevelt.