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Teddy Roosevelt Speech
On The Edge of the American West there is a great article about an assassination attempt on Teddy Roosevelt on this day in 1912.
The article's title is "I am all right, and you cannot escape listening to my speech either." That's a quote from TR's hour-long speech, which he made after being shot and before going for medical treatment: he showed off his bloody shirt.
In the speech, he said that the nastiness of the rhetoric in the current political campaign (he was a 3rd party candidate and that election was really nasty) was partly responsible for the assassination attempt,
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