September 28, 2009   9 notes

“ 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. ”

I Have Just Been Shot by Theodore Roosevelt

That’s right. Theodore Roosevelt delivered a 90 minute address after being shot (and nearly killed) by an assassin’s bullet. Great president, or greatest president?

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