Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, each born in 1884, were biological first cousins but “distant” ones in every other sense. Eleanor was dutiful and wounded, Alice mischievous and wounding. The Democratic first lady became a force in American social policy and later foreign affairs; Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, known as “Princess Alice” while her father occupied the White House, operated for seven decades after that as the Republican Party’s grand dowager: the wife of House Speaker Nicholas Longworth; the mistress of Sen.