To: Freedom4US
Yep, in 1912. Folded up speech and a glasses case reduced penetration of the shot.
IRONY: he was the Progressive Party candidate. He lost.
15 posted on
05/14/2019 12:57:23 PM PDT by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
To: Blueflag
Yeah, I like the guy .... but, could be wrong, but from this distance it appears he sort of (intentionally?) made Woodrow Wilson President by siphoning off votes, regardless an unmitigated disaster in so many ways still being felt profoundly today.
To: Blueflag; Freedom4US
IRONY: he was the Progressive Party candidate. He lost.
TR's candidacy was fading into the autumn, and only the October shooting reinvigorated it. And, as Freedom4US explains, that came at the expense of Taft, leaving the election to Wilson.
48 posted on
05/14/2019 2:40:36 PM PDT by
nicollo
(I said no!)
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