Great read-Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, the remarkable thing about Theodore Roosevelt is that he had a large amount of diverse talents and the range of achievements he has achieved in his lifetime.


This US President was not only a celebrated academic scholar who graduated from Harvard,he was also a historian who has published a book by the age of 24 and in total had published 18 books (each with several editions)


At the age of 26,when his mother and wife passed away on the same day, he left his lifestyle of a politician to become a cowboy in the state of Dakota.


What's further impressive is that a few years later, when the Spanish-American War broke out, Theodore Roosevelt joined the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry or also known as the "Rough Riders" as a Colonel and went to war for his country. He led the Rough Riders to capture San Juan Hill during the war.His bravery in this war was awarded with a Medal of Honor.

In addition to all that,he was also elected as the youngest ever President of the United States at the age of 42 and led the country with wisdom, curbing the domination of large corporations by delivering a speech to the congress on the matter.His endless effort in ending the Russo-Japanese War earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.

He was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT


And on October 14, 1912,while Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there was an assassination attempt against him when a salon keeper shot him from close range, but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately.


 Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt.He spoke for 90 minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, 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."


 Afterwards, probes and x-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him for the rest of his life.

An x-ray on Theodore Roosevelt showing the bullet on his lower left chest, which remained in him throughout his life time.



Theodore Roosevelt, was a nerd as a Harvard graduate, a historian who wrote 18 books in total, a brave man as a cowboy who caught thief's who try to steal his river boat, a leader of his country in the form of President, a Nobel Peace Prize winner as a peacemaker who ended the Russo-Japanese war and a man who was brave enough who carried on giving his speech, right after being shot.


This man was a real men.RESPECT.