Her whole wikipedia article is gold
âWhen her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, âIf you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.ââ
âHer father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with âsheer rapture.â)â
âDuring the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the shipâs pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.â
âShe was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)â
âWhen it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.â
âLater, the Taft White House banned her from her former residenceâthe first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilsonâs administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilsonâs expense)âŚâ
âAs an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, âWhat do you think youâre doing, you black bastard?â Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, âHeâs taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!â
âTo Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party âHereâs my blind date. I am going to call you Aliceâ, she sarcastically said âSenator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.â
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