Through the door of the Presidential suite in Washington’s Hotel Willard one afternoon last week peeped a lady with the reputation of being the wisest of her clan —Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

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Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee in 1880 and they had one child, Alice Roosevelt. After his wife’s death in 1884, Roosevelt rekindled a romance with his childhood love and second wife, Edith ...