6/7/2023 0 Comments President teddy roosevelt![]() ![]() ![]() Only two days before, the editor-in-chief of The Outlook characterized Roosevelt as “an electric battery of inexhaustible energy,” and for the next 90 minutes, the 53-year-old former president proved it. The bullet is in me now, so I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.” “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. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. (Credit: Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images)Ĭlearly, Roosevelt had buried the lede. ![]()
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