Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quote

Of Thomas E. Dewey:

Dewey looks like the bridegroom on the wedding cake.


According to Roosevelt she didn't coin the phrase herself: 'The first time I heard it Mrs. [Grace Hodgson] Flandrau remarked 'Dewey looks like the bridegroom on the wedding cake.' I thought it frightfully funny and quoted it to everyone. Then it began attributed to me.' - As reported in: Safire's Political Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2008)


Dewey looks like the bridegroom on the wedding cake.

Dewey looks like the bridegroom on the wedding cake.

Dewey looks like the bridegroom on the wedding cake.

Dewey looks like the bridegroom on the wedding cake.