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A Reminder from First Lady Eleanor Rooservelt about the GOP... (Original Post)
Lady Freedom Returns
Jun 2015
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Thanks, Lady Freedom Returns! n/t
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)2. Sorta OT, but I was watching The Roosevelts on PBS last night
and was shocked to hear a quotation by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, that she would rather vote for Hitler than for a third term for FDR.
She was a repub
erronis
(15,302 posts)3. Gotta love the reference library at our fingertips
From https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 February 20, 1980) was an American writer and prominent socialite. She was the oldest child of U.S. President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (18581919). She was the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee (186184).
Alice led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III (Republican-Ohio), a party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child Paulina was allegedly a result of her affair with Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho. She temporarily became a Democrat during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and said in a 60 Minutes interview with Eric Sevareid, televised on February 17, 1974, that she was a "hedonist".
Alice led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III (Republican-Ohio), a party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child Paulina was allegedly a result of her affair with Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho. She temporarily became a Democrat during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and said in a 60 Minutes interview with Eric Sevareid, televised on February 17, 1974, that she was a "hedonist".
Now we all know we can't trust wikipedia, the MSM, journalists, pundits, people-on-the-street, etc.
She might have been a repub or whatever she wanted to be. Another of those ilk.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)4. She had it right, and they still got what they wanted.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)5. There's a belief now that only those from that moneyed 'aristocracy' can win elections.
Some even call that following after FDR. Makes me sick!
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)6. Yup, it's pretty much the Democrats versus the plutocrats. nt