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"During the Bull Moose run Roosevelt was shot at close range as he arrived for a campaign appearance in Milwaukee. The bullet, slowed by the printed text of the 50-page speech folded over in his jacket pocket, had nevertheless "pinked" the former president. Morris' description of TR's grace under fire inspires awe: "Don't hurt him. Bring him here," Roosevelt shouted to men restraining his would-be assassin as he hoisted himself to his feet. "Let's go the hospital," urged an aide. "You get me to that speech," Roosevelt replied, Morris says, "with a savage rasp to his voice." "[The bullet wound] was a ragged, dime-sized hole, bleeding slowly, about an inch below and to the right of his right nipple. The bullet was nowhere to be seen or palpated. The whole right side of his body had turned black," Morris writes. TR took the podium. "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose," he said, going on to speak for an hour and fifteen minutes."

6/3/2011 3:44:39 AM

because that cowboy shit would make gw look good

and those america-hating teacher folk would never do that

6/3/2011 4:22:26 AM

they taught it to me in school

between teaching you to tie your shoes and wipe your ass, maybe they didn't have time to cover it in your special ed class

6/3/2011 6:59:26 AM

they taught it to me in school

between teaching you to tie your shoes and wipe your ass, maybe they didn't have time to cover it in your special ed class

6/3/2011 7:05:00 AM

between teaching you to tie your shoes and wipe your ass, maybe they didn't have time to cover it in your special ed class

they taught it to me in school

6/3/2011 7:11:33 AM

I wasn't taught that. Damn Charlotte-Mecklenberg school system has failed me

6/3/2011 9:54:13 AM

cms failed me to i thought the only ppl that got shot in office or running for office were lincoln and reagan

6/3/2011 10:02:23 AM

Yea. That JFK assassination was kept a HUGE secret

6/3/2011 10:03:32 AM

garfield, mckinley, jfk.

6/3/2011 10:06:03 AM

what kind of bunk ass education did you get? everyone is taught that.

6/3/2011 10:37:16 AM

^^^ hahaha

And don't forget about Congressman Leo Ryan.

6/3/2011 1:06:21 PM

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"Yea. That JFK assassination was kept a HUGE secret "

At least the assassin's identity was kept secret.

6/3/2011 1:13:56 PM

I was taught that

6/3/2011 1:17:04 PM

I, too, was taught this

6/3/2011 1:22:04 PM

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"In school they never taught 'bout hamburgers or steak, Elijah Muhammad or the welfare state. But I know. And I know because of KRS-ONE."

6/3/2011 1:24:52 PM

TR also resigned from the cabinet in order to lead his own troops called the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. You can also thank him for the abundance of national parks and conservation efforts despite being an avid big game hunter. Pretty badass.

Oh, and message_topic.aspx?topic=580914

6/3/2011 6:46:42 PM

I thought one of his reasonings behind the park system was to ensure there would always be game to hunt.

I doubt we will ever have a president as bad ass as Roosevelt again.

6/3/2011 7:19:07 PM

Perhaps you should have paid attention. This is why America is failing.

6/3/2011 9:07:55 PM

Was this why he ended up in that wheelchair?

6/3/2011 9:09:03 PM

^no that was from a polo match or something

6/3/2011 9:11:11 PM

No, you're thinking of Superman.

6/3/2011 9:12:09 PM

But all jokes aside, TR was pretty bad ass and the Edmund Morris books have some interesting info.

[Edited on June 3, 2011 at 9:18 PM. Reason : ]

6/3/2011 9:13:28 PM

6/3/2011 9:14:11 PM

6/3/2011 9:16:01 PM

American history classes in highschool span too much time. By the time they get to Teddy Roosevelt they are running out of time and they blow past him quickly. The Bull Moose era gets about two sentences.

6/3/2011 9:38:56 PM

I only took honors US History but we covered all the way up through the 60's in nice detail. We had a mock (re)trial of Andrew Johnson where I was given the ridiculous task of being his lawyer. I was actually able to convince our jury that he was innocent using the evidence they had at the time.

6/3/2011 10:27:29 PM

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"I was taught that"

I wasn't... but I didn't take any history class in college that would have covered this, and we didn't really cover stuff like this in AP history (the details of failed assassination attempts were not relevant to either AP or IB exams, so I can see why)

[Edited on June 3, 2011 at 10:30 PM. Reason : cool to learn now]

6/3/2011 10:29:31 PM

6/4/2011 12:04:03 AM

Because you went to public school

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

6/4/2011 12:04:30 AM

how has nobody posted that Palin video

6/4/2011 12:12:40 AM

I don't remember whether it was in school or on my own that I learned this, but I thought it was pretty much common knowledge.

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"Was this why he ended up in that wheelchair? "

haha

(that is a joke, right?)

6/4/2011 12:18:36 AM

Perhaps you should have paid attention. This is why America is failing.

6/4/2011 12:22:20 AM

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"Perhaps you should have paid attention. This is why America is failing."

It's impossible to pay attention to something that was never passed down in the first place. But you wouldn't know how to connect those dots...


failing.

6/4/2011 12:38:09 AM

clearly its been passed down as most everyone here already knew this


also, she wasn't talking to you

[Edited on June 4, 2011 at 12:40 AM. Reason : .]

6/4/2011 12:40:08 AM