eleanor, excuse me, alice roosevelt lived in washington for years and years and years. she lived into the 1970s. she was born the same year as franklin roosevelt in 1882. and she had, she had a difficult girlhood herself with her own father, with theodore roosevelt. alice roosevelt when she had this house for decades in dupont circle in washington had a sofa in the front room and on the sofa there was a pillow. and on the pillow in needlepoint was the saying, if you don't have something nice to say about somebody, come sit here beside me. this was alice's approach to the world. and, but alice occasionally would find something in her heart to say, sort of good about somebody else. and she gave eleanor something of a backhanded compliment when she said, you know, eleanor, eleanor was not as ugly as some people seemed to think. in fact, when she was young, she had beautiful long, blond hair. and a tall athletic figure. now if alice had simply left it at that would have been fine. of course alice being alice she had to go on and say, if those hateful grandparents simply gott

alice, talking to people like julie nixon, who certainly went through a lot of agony. talking to some of the carter children. going and needing helen taft manning, and president roosevelt's granddaughter who live in the white house during the second world war. it gave me great insight into american history. it made me recognize just how young we are and how brazilian we are. i am just so proud to be a member of that very small group of people, the presidential children. -- how young we are and how resilant we are. >> it was the best of times and the worst of times, but it was a unique privilege that will not pass my way again. by an accident of birth, i got to be an eye witness to history. yes, if i could have chosen, at age 16 would not have been the year i would have liked to have that opportunity to be phony. -- that opportunity to befall me, because i was so very young, but i am eternally grateful taht by the time i was 21, and because my parents gave me an opportunity to travel across this country and get to know the american people to be present at parties for orphans in the white house, to get a chance to volunteer for project headstart in washington, because volu