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...White House reception. He was wounded and highly decorated as an infantry officer in both World Wars, conflicts that none of his three brothers survived. Roosevelt was an investment banker by profession, a conservationist by avocation and a bedrock McCarthyite Republican by political creed. His death makes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 95, T.R.'s sole surviving child...
...United States Department of Education--an organ without Cabinet-level status. For the next 110 years and more, proposals to establish such a department have burst upon Congress sporadically. From 1908 to 1951, more than 50 pieces of legislation seeking to establish an education department floated through the Russell, Longworth and Rayburn Congressional office buildings; however, none survived beyond the committee stage. Legislation introduced in the 95th Congress met a similar fate. Meanwhile, education has become an orphan child in the constantly expanding bureaucracy-on-the-Potomac, drifting from the Interior Department to the Federal Security Agency and finally coming...
Most Americans have seen history take critical turns because of appearances. Thomas E. Dewey was hurt in both his campaigns for the White House because many voters agreed with snippy Alice Roosevelt Longworth that he looked "like the bridegroom on a wedding cake." In 1960 Richard Nixon's narrow loss to John Kennedy was greatly influenced by the scenes from that famous first televised debate. Nixon was recovering from a staph infection, and his gray visage was transmogrified into a haggard, glowering, shifty-eyed mask by the same cameras that broadcast a fresh, vigorous Kennedy. Nixon learned the lesson...
Washington's "other monument" got together with the pop world's rising star, and the talk was strictly bearish. Singer Teddy Pendergrass, a.k.a. Teddy Bear, had stopped off at the Embassy Row home of Alice Roosevelt Longworth to present her with an oversized, cuddly guess-what. The visit was to mark the 75th anniversary of the first Teddy bear, named after Alice's father, Teddy Roosevelt. "It has a great big fat swollen face, with a little mouth on the edge. It's just waiting to be loved," shrugged the tart-tongued Princess Alice...
Still, there was plenty of activity outside the committee room. Reported TIME Capitol Hill Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "To the corridors of the Longworth Office Building flocked senior Administration officials and top Washington tax lobbyists. They huddled in dark corners with anxious conferees to check the latest status of the 126 individual points before the joint committee. Arms were being twisted and deals being made. An example was the special tax deduction for companies with personnel based overseas. The House version cut the tax liability of such firms by $545 million; the Senate break was a more modest $310 million. This...