Until today, I was unaware that there was an assassination attempt on former president Theodore Roosevelt. 99 years ago today, he survived an assassination attempt while campaigning in Milwaukee as the Progressive (or Bull Moose) Party presidential nominee. Despite having his shirt bloodied and the bullet still lodged in his chest, Roosevelt delivered an 80-minute speech that started out this way:
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet — there is where the bullet went through — and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
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