assassination attempt, leaders, resilience, teddy roosevelt, theodore roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt and the Speech That Stopped a Bullet

“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.” These are the famous words of Theodore Roosevelt a few moments after he had survived certain death after being shot ...

Nathan Machoka

Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt.