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Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt Speech after Being Shot

  By Witnify Admin • October 14, 2017 Uncategorized
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On October 14, 1912, an unemployed saloonkeeper shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel. Rather than being rushed to the hospital, Roosevelt insisted on delivering his scheduled 90-minute speech. By slowing the bullet, those lengthy prepared remarks may actually have saved his life. Theodore … Continue reading

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[Text] Theodore Roosevelt’s Admiration for the Grand Canyon

  By Virginia Choi • August 14, 2014 Uncategorized
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“I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur…Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it.” President of the United States from 1901 to 1909, Theodore Roosevelt is considered the “Father … Continue reading