On October 14, 1912, while campaigning for president, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by an assassin. The bullet was slowed by his eyeglass case and a folded copy of his long speech. Realizing it hadn’t hit his lung, Roosevelt refused medical help and stunned the crowd by delivering an 84-minute speech with the bullet still inside him. He began with the legendary line, “It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose,” a nod to the nickname of his Progressive Party. Doctors later found the

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