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🧿 𝑳𝒂 𝒉𝒊𝒋𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆 𝒅𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒕 🧿
Alice Roosevelt nació el 12 de febrero de 1884 con una tragedia que marcaría para siempre a su familia.
Su madre, Alice Hathaway Lee, murió apenas dos días después de dar a luz por una insuficiencia renal que entonces los médicos no supieron tratar.
Lo más cruel es que, ese mismo día, también falleció la madre de Theodore Roosevelt.El futuro presidente quedó completamente destrozado.
En su diario solo escribió una gran X negra ocupando toda la página y una frase: *"La luz se ha ido de mi vida."*
Durante años evitó pronunciar el nombre de su primera esposa y dejó a la pequeña Alice al cuidado de su hermana, Bamie, mientras él se marchaba una temporada al oeste de Estados Unidos intentando rehacer su vida.Pero si alguien esperaba que aquella niña creciera siendo discreta, se equivocó de lleno.
Cuando Theodore Roosevelt llegó a la Casa Blanca en 1901, Alice, con solo 17 años, se convirtió en la joven más famosa de Estados Unidos.
Hoy probablemente la llamaríamos una influencer antes de que existieran las redes sociales.
La prensa seguía cada uno de sus movimientos y cualquier cosa que hacía acababa en los periódicos.Y motivos no faltaban.
Fumaba en público cuando aquello era un escándalo para una mujer.
Conducía automóviles a gran velocidad, apostaba en las carreras de caballos, montaba a caballo sin preocuparse por el protocolo y llevaba en el bolso una pequeña serpiente llamada **Emily Spinach**.
Decía que se llamaba así porque era "verde como la espinaca y delgada como mi tía Emily".Tampoco tenía pelos en la lengua.
Si alguien le caía mal, lo decía.
Si una norma le parecía absurda, la rompía.
Y cuanto más intentaban controlarla, más parecía disfrutar llevando la contraria.En 1905 acompañó una importante delegación diplomática por Asia, visitando Japón, Filipinas, China y Corea.
Oficialmente era un viaje político, pero los titulares acabaron siendo para ella.
Nadó completamente vestida en una piscina pública, gastó bromas a diplomáticos, hizo comentarios provocadores y se saltó más de un protocolo.
Era imposible no hablar de Alice Roosevelt.Su padre acabó resignándose y pronunció una frase que ha pasado a la historia:
*"Puedo ser presidente de Estados Unidos o controlar a Alice.
No puedo hacer las dos cosas."*En 1906 se casó con **Nicholas Longworth**, uno de los políticos republicanos más importantes de la época y futuro presidente de la Cámara de Representantes.
Sin embargo, el matrimonio fue todo menos convencional.
Ambos tuvieron relaciones extramatrimoniales y en Washington era un secreto a voces que la única hija de Alice, Paulina, probablemente no era de su marido, sino del senador **William Borah**.Lejos de esconderse, Alice siguió siendo una de las mujeres más influyentes de la capital.
Su casa era un lugar de reunión donde se mezclaban presidentes, congresistas, periodistas, diplomáticos y empresarios.
Allí se hablaba de política, de elecciones, de guerras... y también de todos los chismes imaginables.Tenía un ingenio demoledor.
Una de sus frases más famosas iba dirigida al presidente **Calvin Coolidge**:*"Parece que lo hubieran destetado con un pepinillo."*
Y de otro político dijo simplemente:
*"Es un hombre que habla con frases entre comas."*
En su salón tenía incluso un cojín bordado con una frase que resumía bastante bien su personalidad:
**"Si no puedes decir algo bueno de alguien... siéntate aquí a mi lado."**
Vivió nada menos que **96 años**.
Le dio tiempo a conocer a once presidentes de Estados Unidos, desde su propio padre hasta **Jimmy Carter**.
Vio dos guerras mundiales, la Gran Depresión, el nacimiento de la televisión, la llegada del hombre a la Luna y buena parte de la Guerra Fría.Nunca ocupó un cargo político.
Nunca fue elegida para ningún puesto.
Y, sin embargo, durante décadas fue una de las personas más influyentes y mejor informadas de Washington.
Alice Roosevelt demostró que, a veces, el poder no necesita un despacho ni un cargo oficial.
Basta con una inteligencia afilada, una lengua aún más afilada... y el valor de no comportarse como todo el mundo esperaba.
📌 Y un dato curioso: en la Casa Blanca hubo tanto revuelo con Alice que los periódicos llegaron a hablar de "Alice Blue", un tono de azul claro inspirado en el color de uno de sus vestidos.
Se puso tan de moda que tiendas de todo Estados Unidos empezaron a vender ropa y complementos con ese nombre.
No era solo famosa: marcaba tendencia, algo muy poco habitual para una mujer de principios del siglo XX.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer; US President (1901–09)
Autobiography, Introduction (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #collaboration #effort #hardwork #mutualassistance #mutualrespect #mutualresponsibility #mutualsupport #mutuality #personalresponsibility #responsibility #selfsupport #standtogether
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#Trump #DonaldTrump #America #USA #Song #UnitedStates #Rushmore #Music #MountRushmore #presidents #Washington #Jefferson #AI #Roosevelt #Lincoln #Funny #Harmony #GeorgeWashington #Video #ThomasJefferson #Viral #TheodoreRoosevelt #YouTube #AbrahamLincoln #USPol #Politics Trump’s clearly a basket case, and how can anyone possibly disagree with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln?
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
A man who stays long in our American political life, if he has in his soul the generous desire to do effective service for great causes, inevitably grows to regard himself merely as one of many instruments, all of which it may be necessary to use, one at one time, one at another, in achieving the triumph of those causes; and whenever the usefulness of any one has been exhausted, it is to be thrown aside. If such a man is wise, he will gladly do the thing that is next, when the time and the need come together, without asking what the future holds for him. Let the half-god play his part well and manfully, and then be content to draw aside when the god appears. Nor should he feel vain regrets that to another it is given to render greater services and reap a greater reward. Let it be enough for him that he too has served, and that by doing well he has prepared the way for the other man who can do better.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 3 “Practical Politics” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
The teaching which I received was genuinely democratic in one way. It was not so democratic in another. I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. But I had also, consciously or unconsciously, been taught that socially and industrially pretty much the whole duty of the man lay in thus making the best of himself; that he should be honest in his dealings with others and charitable in the old-fashioned way to the unfortunate; but that it was no part of his business to join with others in trying to make things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
In addition to, not as a substitute for, individual responsibility, there is a collective responsibility.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
[… T]he individual virtues, and the necessity of character as the chief factor in any man’s success — a teaching in which I now believe as sincerely as ever, for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
My duty was to stand with every one while he was right, and to stand against him when he went wrong; and this I have tried to do as regards individuals and as regards groups of individuals. When a business man or labor leader, politician or reformer, is right, I support him; when he goes wrong, I leave him.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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Trump shifts his tone on Jimmy Carter while grappling with Iran, inflation and his own legacy
WASHINGTON – Jimmy Carter used to be one of President Donald Trump ’s favorite political t…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
One of the worst features of the old spoils system was the ruthless cruelty and brutality it so often bred in the treatment of faithful public servants without political influence. Life is hard enough and cruel enough at best, and this is as true of public service as of private service. Under no system will it be possible to do away with all favoritism and brutality and meanness and malice. But at least we can try to minimize the exhibition of these qualities.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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Teddy Roosevelt’s method for overcoming grief and depression holds up more than 100 years later
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Civil Service Reform had two sides. There was, first, the effort to secure a more efficient administration of the public service, and, second, the even more important effort to withdraw the administrative offices of the Government from the domain of spoils politics, and thereby cut out of American political life a fruitful source of corruption and degradation.
The spoils theory of politics is that public office is so much plunder which the victorious political party is entitled to appropriate to the use of its adherents. […] Yet there were many flagrant instances of inefficiency, where a powerful chief quartered friend, adherent, or kinsman upon the Government. Moreover, the necessarily haphazard nature of the employment, the need of obtaining and holding the office by service wholly unconnected with official duty, inevitably tended to lower the standard of public morality, alike among the office-holders and among the politicians who rendered party service with the hope of reward in office.Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
He had not learned that the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would have to oppress the former; and that, if there is a moral principle at stake, the saying that the voice of the people is the voice of God may be quite as untrue, and do quite as much mischief, as the old theory of the divine right of kings. The distinguishing feature of our American governmental system is the freedom of the individual; it is quite as important to prevent his being oppressed by many men as it is to save him from the tyranny of one.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Thomas Hart Benton, ch. 6 (1886)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my Administration, next to the insistence upon courage, honesty, and a genuine democracy of desire to serve the plain people, was my insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its Constitutional powers. My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. Under this interpretation of executive power I did and caused to be done many things not previously done by the President and the heads of the departments. I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words, I acted for the public welfare, I acted for the common well-being of all our people, whenever and in whatever manner was necessary, unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 10 "The Presidency" (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 22 “The Big Stick and the Square Deal” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 7 “The War of America the Unready” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 9 “Outdoors and Indoors” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real knowledge of their extent and condition. The relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of National welfare and National efficiency had not yet dawned on the public mind. The reclamation of arid public lands in the West was still a matter for private enterprise alone; and our magnificent river system, with its superb possibilities for public usefulness, was dealt with by the National Government not as a unit, but as a disconnected series of pork-barrel problems, whose only real interest was in their effect on the reëlection or defeat of a Congressman here and there — a theory which, I regret to say, still obtains.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 11 “The Natural Resources of the Nation” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/5…
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Government by the people means that the people have the right to do their own thinking and to do their own speaking about their public servants. They must speak truthfully and they must not be disloyal to the country, and it is their highest duty by truthful criticism to make and keep the public servants loyal to the country.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-04-06), “Citizens or Subjects?” Kansas City StarMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
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