The presidential hopeful hops out of the motorcade to meet and greet the people ~ 1960
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"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."

~   Theodore Roosevelt, Milwaukee, Wis., October, 14, 1912
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