czartoryski:

some p cool facts about alice roosevelt

• she was the daughter of alice hathaway lee roosevelt and theodore roosevelt, born in 1884 
• was considered a rebel in her time, bc she did things like:
• smoked cigarettes on the white house roof
• rode in cars with men
• stayed out late partying
• kept a pet snake named emily spinach in her purse
• placed bets on horse races
• during a cruise to japan, alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed (years later bobby kennedy told her that it was outrageous and she replied that it would have only been outrageous had she removed her clothes)
• later in her biography she argued that there wasn’t much difference between her dress and a swimsuit in that time anyway
• on her wedding day she cut the cake with a sword 
• (she was about to cut it with a normal knife and then noticed that a military aide was standing nearby and she was like “sweet sword, can i have it for a sec? thx”)
• when they were moving out of the white house she burned a voodoo doll of the new first lady in the front yard

• in
  1965 her black chauffeur Richard Turner, who was also one of her best friends,
  was driving her to an appointment and pulled out in
  front of a taxi, and the driver got out and said “what do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” and alice responded “he’s
  taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

• she had a pillow which said “if you can’t say something good about someone, come sit right here by me”
• a senator had jokingly remarked at a party
  “here’s my blind date. i am going to call you alice,“and she said “senator mccarthy, you are not going to call me alice.
  the truckman, the trashman and the policeman on my block may call me alice, but
  you may not.”
• she told president johnson that she wore wide-brimmed hats so he couldn’t kiss her
• when people were complaining about alice to theodore roosevelt, he said "i can either run the country or i can attend to alice, but i cannot possibly do both.“