Malia's twerking has nothing on 'Nightmare' Alice Roosevelt

Anyone concerned Malia Obama's twerking at Chicago's Lollapalooza upset the presidential father can rest easy. Only one prez suffered angst with daughter hi-jinks and that was 115 years ago when TR gave up the ghost controlling 'Nightmare' Alice, his first daughter born two days before her namesake mom suddenly died. Alice described herself in later life as a hedonist who experienced shear rapture upon President Bill McKinley's 1901 assassination propelling TR and Alice to the White House, where Alice became an instant celebrity and fashion icon for her beauty, charisma and outlandish behavior. For starters Alice smoked in public, rode in cars with boys and partied late into the evening. At home she placed bets with bookies and was so mad at leaving to make room for the Tafts, she buried a voodoo doll of Nellie Taft in the front lawn. Banned from the White House by both the Taft and Wilson administrations, she only got back in when her friend, new First Lady Florence Harding, arrived in 1921. Alice married playboy congressman and future House Speaker Nick Longworth in 1905 but her only child Paulina was fathered by her longtime lover and famous isolationist senator William Borah. Alice was one of the greatest wits ever, sabotaging Tom Dewey's '44 and '48 White House runs with the complaint Dewey looked like 'the little groom on the wedding cake."

Unlike Obama, who can both run the country and relate to his daughter, TR sighed, "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both."