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Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wild thing

By Lawrence L. Knutson

Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, an "ambulatory Washington monument" until her 1980 death, had her personal motto embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anybody, come sit next to me.''

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