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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

I brought it up :-)

As I posted in this Note (https://substack.com/@margaretannaalice/note/c-61952733):

Don’t forget about Teddy Roosevelt, who survived an assassination attempt on October 14, 1912, because of the 50-page manuscript for his speech in his coat pocket. He delivered his speech before attending to the bullet wound, beginning:

“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. It takes more than that to kill a bull moose. 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 I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.… I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap.” (https://www.history.com/news/shot-in-the-chest-100-years-ago-teddy-roosevelt-kept-on-talking)

He was running under his third party (the Progressive Party, a.k.a. the Bull Moose Party). This was just a few months after he had uttered these dangerous words in his “Progressive Covenant with the People” speech:

“Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great staffs, both of the old parties have ganged aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them in martialling [sic] to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”

As I shared several months ago in this Substack Note (https://substack.com/@margaretannaalice/note/c-52757995), you can actually hear a recording of Teddy reading that speech here:

https://loc.gov/item/99391565

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NPD's avatar

his opponent Woodrow Wilson being the deep state candidate responsible for creating the federal reserve.

just a coincidence, i'm sure.

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