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Hissing Cousins

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by Marc Peyser


  72. Ibid., Feb. 16, 1912.

  73. Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, 215.

  74. “Longworth in Trouble,” New York Times, June 24, 1912.

  75. “Delegates Begin to Arrive,” New York Times, June 24, 1912.

  76. Ibid.

  77. Teague, Mrs. L, 158.

  78. ER to Isabella Ferguson, July 8, 1912, in A Volume of Friendship, 47.

  79. “Delegates Begin to Arrive,” New York Times, June 24, 1912.

  80. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 189.

  81. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 206.

  82. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 189.

  83. Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:197.

  84. Gilbert King, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Life-Saving Speech,” Smithsonian Magazine blog, April 25, 2012.

  85. Cordery, Alice, 233.

  86. Lewis, Life of Theodore Roosevelt, 381.

  87. “Mrs. Roosevelt Left Theatre in Tears,” New York Times, Oct. 15, 1912.

  88. “Would-Be Assassin Is John Schrank, Once Saloonkeeper Here,” New York Times, Oct. 15, 1912.

  89. ARL diary, Oct. 4, 1912.

  90. “Johnson Quits Indiana,” New-York Tribune, Sept. 21, 1912.

  91. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 218.

  92. ARL diary, Nov. 3, 1912.

  CHAPTER 4: OTHER WOMEN

  1. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 207.

  2. Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, 209, 89.

  3. Stirling, Sea Duty, 142.

  4. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 195–96.

  5. “The History of the Calling Card,” american​stationery.​com, posted Dec. 3, 2012.

  6. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 206.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 225.

  9. Ibid.

  10. “The Boudoir Mirrors of Washington,” Baltimore Sun, Feb. 24, 1924.

  11. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 206.

  12. Ibid., 206–7.

  13. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 234.

  14. Ibid., 238.

  15. Cordery, Alice, 243.

  16. Felsenthal, Princess Alice, 96.

  17. “Longworths Back in Capital,” Washington Post, Feb. 26, 1915.

  18. ER to Isabella Ferguson, Dec. 21, 1915, in A Volume of Friendship, 130.

  19. Teague, Mrs. L, 156.

  20. Ibid., 156–57.

  21. TR to ER, March 15, 1915, FDRL.

  22. “Franklin Aids T.R.,” Baltimore Sun, May 5, 1915.

  23. TR to FDR, May 29, 1915, FDRL.

  24. Kay, Roosevelt’s Navy, 171–72.

  25. Ibid., 87.

  26. Ward, Before the Trumpet, 335.

  27. Teague, Mrs. L, 156.

  28. June Bingham, “Before the Colors Fade: Alice Roosevelt Longworth,” American Heritage, Feb. 1969, 42–43, 73–77.

  29. Teague, Mrs. L, 157.

  30. Asbell, FDR Memoirs, 229.

  31. SDR to ER, March 24, 1915, FDRL.

  32. FDR to ER, July 7, 1916, FDRL.

  33. Persico, Franklin and Lucy, 98.

  34. FDR to ER, July 16, 1917, FDRL.

  35. FDR to ER, July 25, 1917, FDRL.

  36. Persico, Franklin and Lucy, 100.

  37. Bingham, “Before the Colors Fade.”

  38. Woollcott to Joseph Alsop, Dec. 26, 1936, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

  39. Lash, Love, Eleanor, 69.

  40. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 226.

  41. ARL, interview by Lash, April 5, 1966, FDRL.

  42. Persico, Franklin and Lucy, 84.

  43. ARL, interview by Lash, April 5, 1966.

  44. ARL, interview by Jonathan Aitken on “The Reporters,” aired April 22, 1969.

  45. Nina Roosevelt Gibson, author interview, March 5, 2013.

  46. Teague, Mrs. L, 157.

  47. ARL, interview by Lash, Feb. 2, 1967, FDRL.

  48. Stewart Alsop, Center, 80.

  49. Joseph Alsop, I’ve Seen the Best of It, 92.

  50. Cordery, Alice, 250.

  51. Persico, Franklin and Lucy, 108.

  52. Joseph Alsop, FDR, 67.

  53. Ferguson to ER, n.d., A Volume of Friendship, 137.

  54. ER to Ferguson, June 21, 1916, A Volume of Friendship, 139.

  55. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 251.

  56. TR to Archibald Roosevelt, Sept. 8, 1917.

  57. Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, 486.

  58. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson as I Knew Him, 288.

  59. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 251.

  60. Teague, Mrs. L, 162.

  61. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 258.

  62. Teichmann, Alice, 100.

  63. Teichmann, Alice, 102.

  64. Cordery, Alice, 269.

  65. ER to Ferguson, April 2, 1918, FDRL.

  66. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 215.

  67. Felsenthal, Princess Alice, 138.

  68. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 255.

  69. Felsenthal, Princess Alice, 138.

  70. “How to Save in Big Homes,” New York Times, July 17, 1917.

  71. Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:211.

  72. Sally Quinn, “Alice Roosevelt Longworth at 90,” Washington Post, Feb. 12, 1974.

  73. Teague, Mrs. L, 162.

  74. Ibid., 162–63.

  75. Collier, Roosevelts, 232.

  76. Hagedorn, Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, 413–14.

  77. F. Trubee Davison, interview by Mary Hagedorn, March 30, 1955.

  78. ER to Isabella Ferguson, July 28, 1918, in A Volume of Friendship, 157.

  79. FDR to ER, July 27, 1917, FDRL.

  80. FDR to ER, Aug. 15, 1917, FDRL.

  81. Persico, Franklin and Lucy, 102.

  82. Roosevelt and Brough, Untold Story, 89.

  83. ER to FDR, n.d., FDRL.

  84. Margaret Cutting, interview by Lash, Aug. 13, 1966, FDRL.

  85. Teague, Mrs. L, 160–61.

  86. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “European Inspection Tour, July 30, 1918,” in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905–1928, 391.

  87. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 267.

  88. ER to SDR, July 17, 1918, FDRL.

  89. Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:227.

  90. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 268.

  91. Kay, Roosevelt’s Navy, 238.

  92. Lash, Love, Eleanor, 66.

  CHAPTER 5: THE BREAK BEGINS

  1. Sylvia Jukes Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 431; Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, 541.

  2. “Roosevelt Bitter in Beginning War on the President,” New York Times, Oct. 29, 1918.

  3. Robinson, My Brother Theodore Roosevelt, 365.

  4. “Bury Roosevelt with Simple Rites as Nation Grieves,” New York Times, Jan. 9, 1919.

  5. Renehan, Lion’s Pride, 222.

  6. ER to SDR, Jan. 9, 1919, FDRL.

  7. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 226.

  8. ER to SDR, Jan. 22, 1918, FDRL.

  9. Persico, Franklin and Lucy, 125.

  10. Morgan, FDR, 208.

  11. Daniels, Washington Quadrille, 145.

  12. Anna Halsted, interview by Lash, 4, FDRL.

  13. Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:179.

  14. James Roosevelt, My Parents, 101.

  15. Ibid., 102.

  16. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 230.

  17. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 274.

  18. Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:234.

  19. Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 293.

  20. ER to SDR, Oct. 10, 1919, FDRL.

  21. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 283.

  22. James Roosevelt, My Parents, 44.

  23. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 285.

  24. “Capital Greets Wilson Warmly,” New York Times, July 9, 1919.

  25. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 285.

  26. Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield Cowles, oral history interview by Hermann Hagedorn, Dec. 28, 1954, CUOHP.

  27. Frederick W. Haberman, Nobel Lectures, Peace, 1901–1
925.

  28. Barrymore, Memories, 234.

  29. Byrd, Senate, 1789–1989.

  30. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 288.

  31. ARL, interview by Brandon, May 25, 1967.

  32. “Rise of Senator Borah from Obscure Lawyer to Eminence in Nation and Party,” New York Times, Jan. 20, 1940.

  33. “Clarence Darrow Is Dead in Chicago,” New York Times, March 14, 1938.

  34. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 300.

  35. Martin, Cissy, 189.

  36. Amanda Smith, Newspaper Titan, 234.

  37. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 292.

  38. Borah, Closing Speech of Hon. William E. Borah, 16.

  39. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 292.

  40. “Cheers for Wilson Continue 21 Minutes, but They Lack Heart,” New-York Tribune, June 29, 1920.

  41. Pietrusza, 1920, 245.

  42. Ward, First-Class Temperament, 511.

  43. “Roosevelt Career Like That of Cousin,” New York Times, July 7, 1920.

  44. Ernest Harvier, “Sees Roosevelt as Second Arthur,” New York Times, July 25, 1920.

  45. “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Snapshot,” in The Outlook 125, May–August 1920, 494.

  46. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 311.

  47. ER to Ferguson, July 11, 1919, in A Volume of Friendship, 160.

  48. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 250.

  49. Ibid.

  50. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 316.

  51. Steinberg, Mrs. R, 120.

  52. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 318.

  53. Ibid., 319.

  54. Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:278.

  55. “The Democrats and Theodore Roosevelt,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Oct. 21, 1920.

  56. Roosevelt, An Untold Story, 211.

  57. Collier, Roosevelts, 259.

  58. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 203.

  59. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson speech, 1920.

  60. TR to William Sheffield Cowles, in The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, 2:803, March 29, 1898.

  61. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 52.

  62. “Groom Roosevelt for a City Office,” New York Times, March 23, 1919.

  63. “Democratic Filibusters Delay Vote on Expulsion of Socialists in Stormy Debate in Assembly,” New York Times, April 1, 1920.

  64. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 126.

  65. “To Follow Roosevelt,” New York Times, August 14, 1920.

  66. “Raps Franklin Roosevelt,” New York Times, September 18, 1920.

  67. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 291.

  68. Helen Bullitt Loury, “Washington’s Social Lobby,” New York Times, April 2, 1922.

  69. Anthony, Florence Harding, 288–89.

  70. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 323–24.

  71. Ibid., 323.

  72. Pottker, Sara and Eleanor, 190.

  73. Ibid., 191.

  74. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 323.

  75. Ibid., 325.

  76. Ibid., 324.

  77. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 264.

  CHAPTER 6: THE SINGING TEAPOT

  1. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 108–9.

  2. “F. D. Roosevelt Is Better,” New York Times, Sept. 15, 1921.

  3. “F. D. Roosevelt Ill of Poliomyelitis,” New York Times, Sept. 16, 1921.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ward, First-Class Temperament, 603.

  6. TR Jr. to ER, n.d., FDRL.

  7. “Alice Longworth Looms as Power Behind Congress,” Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 9, 1923.

  8. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. diary, Sept. 27, 1923, LOC.

  9. Hannah Mitchell, “Mrs. Alice Longworth a Silent Influence in Capitol Politics,” New-York Tribune, March 21, 1920.

  10. “What Congressmen Know,” New York Times, Feb. 9, 1922.

  11. “Alice Longworth Looms as Power Behind Congress.”

  12. ARL, interview by Ted Weintal, Sept. 28, 1967, LOC.

  13. “Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President,” United States Senate History (Washington, D.C.: Senate Historical Office), 1997.

  14. Anna Halsted, interviewed by James E. Sargent, May 11, 1973, CUOHP.

  15. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 337.

  16. Roosevelt and Brough, Untold Story, 142.

  17. Faber, Life of Lorena Hickok, 281.

  18. Marion Dickerman, oral history interview, conducted by M. B. Starr, Jan. 10, 1972, CUOHP.

  19. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, 124.

  20. Ibid., 342–43.

  21. Teague, Mrs. L, 160.

  22. Anna Halsted, interview by Lash, May 22, 1967, FDRL.

  23. Bok, Americanization of Edward Bok, 267.

  24. Krabbendam, Model Man, 187.

  25. “Misleading the People,” Washington Post, Jan. 13, 1924.

  26. Charles de Benedetti, “The $100,000 American Peace Award of 1924,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April 1974, 226–27.

  27. Constance Drexel, “Attending Hearings Becomes Pastime for Capital Women,” Washington Post, Feb. 3, 1924.

  28. Esther Lape, interview by Lash, March 3, 1970, FDRL.

  29. “Miss Lape Proves Match for Hecklers at Bok Hearing,” New York Tribune, Jan. 24, 1924.

  30. ER to FDR, Feb. 6, 1924, FDRL.

  31. “The Chronology of the Roosevelt Teapot Dome Affair,” Auburn Citizen (NY), Oct. 28, 1924.

  32. Collier, The Roosevelts, 288.

  33. Frank R. Kent, “Archie Roosevelt’s Teapot Story Proves Bombshell,” Baltimore Sun, Jan. 23, 1924.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 157.

  36. Ward, First-Class Temperament, 684.

  37. “Smith and All Ticket Renamed,” Schenectady Gazette, Sept. 27, 1924.

  38. “Roosevelt Sees Smith as a Czar,” New York Times, Oct. 28, 1924.

  39. “Some of My Best Friends Are Negro,” Ebony, Feb. 1953.

  40. “Democrats Issue a Campaign Book,” New York Times, Oct. 12, 1924.

  41. “Local News,” Fulton Patriot, Oct. 29, 1924.

  42. “Teapot to Sing Across North Land—Davis and Smith Women Campaigners Not Coming Here,” Ogdensburg Republican-Journal, Oct. 23, 1924.

  43. Emily Smith Warner, interview conducted by William Keylor, June 25, 1967, CUOHP.

  44. Anna Roosevelt Cowles to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Oct. n.d., 1924, TRC.

  45. “3 Women Debate Campaign Issues,” New York Times, Nov. 2, 1924.

  46. Teichmann, Alice, 127.

  47. Roosevelt, This I Remember, 31.

  CHAPTER 7: NEW ROLES

  1. “Mrs. Longworth Has Mumps,” Washington Herald, Jan. 11, 1915.

  2. William Allen White, Puritan in Babylon, x.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Cordery, Alice, 315.

  5. Edith Roosevelt to Anna Cowles, Nov. 22, 1924, TRC.

  6. Kermit Roosevelt to Belle, Nov. 14, 1924, in Cordery, Alice, 314.

  7. Davis, Invincible Summer, 35.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 298.

  10. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, 145.

  11. Pottker, Sara and Eleanor, 237–38.

  12. “Princess Alice,” New Yorker, Feb. 28, 1925.

  13. Felsenthal, Princess Alice, 157.

  14. “Princess Alice,” New Yorker.

  15. John K. Winkler, “The Playboy of Politics,” New Yorker, April 10, 1926, 15.

  16. “Teddy’s Daughter Is Power in Politics,” Evening Republican, Nov. 17, 1924.

  17. “National Committee G.O.P. Post Refused by Mrs. Longworth,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Oct. 2, 1926.

  18. “Alice Rules ‘Nick’ Out,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 25, 1927.

  19. Helen Roosevelt Robinson to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, n.d., TRC.

  20. “A Woman Speaks Her Political Mind,” New York Times, April 8, 1928.

  21. Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:379.

  22. ER to Jane Hoey, April 9, 1930, FDRL.

  23. “Cap
ital in Hostile Camps,” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1929.

  24. Will Rogers, “Will Rogers Remarks,” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1929.

  25. “Capital Society Girds for Warfare,” New York Times, May 7, 1929.

  26. Pearson and Allen, Washington Merry-Go-Round, 15.

  27. Ibid., 332.

  28. “ ‘Alice’ Greets ‘Dolly’ at White House Fete,” New York Times, Dec. 9, 1930.

  29. “Princess Alice,” New Yorker.

  30. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 335.

  31. Robert Barry, “Alice Rules ‘Nick’ Out,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1927.

  32. “Alice Longworth as Governor Choice of Filipino Newspaper,” New York Times, Dec. 15, 1931.

  33. “Roosevelt Invokes an ‘Olympic Peace,’ ” New York Times, Feb. 5, 1932.

  34. Frances Perkins, oral history conducted by Dean Albertson, 1951–1955 (various dates), CUOHP.

  35. Gore Vidal, “Theodore Roosevelt: American Sissy,” New York Review of Books, Aug. 13, 1981.

  36. “Governor and Wife Mourn Longworth,” New York Times, April 9, 1931.

  37. Kermit Roosevelt to Elizabeth Willard Herbert, April 25, 1931, LOC.

  38. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Jan. 13, 1941.

  39. TR Jr. to Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Nov. 9, 1930, LOC.

  40. Teague, Mrs. L, 159.

  41. “Notification Made a Social Occasion,” New York Times, Aug. 11, 1932.

  42. Edith Kermit Roosevelt to TR Jr., Aug. 18, 1933, LOC.

  43. “Mrs. Hoover Hailed by Mid-west Crowds,” New York Times, Oct. 29, 1932.

  44. “Makes 31-Word Speech,” New York Times, Nov. 2, 1932.

  45. Ibid.

  46. ARL, interview by Weintal, Sept. 28, 1967, LOC.

  47. ER to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Sept. 23, 1932, TRC.

  48. “Mrs. Robinson Keeps Silent on National Race,” New York Times, Nov. 3, 1932.

  49. ER to Corinne Alsop, Nov. 18, 1932, TRC.

  50. Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 42.

  51. Edith Kermit Roosevelt to Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, Feb. 13, 1933, LOC.

  52. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 302.

  53. “Mrs. Roosevelt Takes News Calmly,” New York Times, Feb. 16, 1933.

  54. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 31.

  CHAPTER 8: IN THE ARENA

  1. Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 103.

  2. “Mrs. Roosevelt Shatters Traditions in a Single Day,” Associated Press, March 5, 1933.

  3. Roosevelt and Brough, Rendezvous with Destiny, 28.

  4. Ibid.

  5. ARL, interview by Norman St. John-Stevas, Jan. 31, 1970, LOC.

  6. Collier, Roosevelts, 388.

 

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