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A speech may have saved Teddy Roosevelt’s life On October 14, 1912, he addressed an eager Milwaukee crowd, “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” Then he opened his vest and — to the sound of gasps — showed his bloodstained shirt There was a bullet hole through all 50 pages of his speech, which he cheerfully showed to the crowd Shortly before, the crowd learned, Roosevelt had been shot by a deranged saloonkeeper with a .38 from just 5 feet away The 53-year-old found a dime-sized bullet hole in the right side of his chest. He asked to see the shooter and asked him, “What did you do it for?” His aides begged him to go the hospital but — after coughing to ensure that the bullet hadn’t punctured his lungs — Teddy insisted on giving the speech  "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose," Roosevelt assured them Luckily for his speech, Roosevelt had a self-claimed photographic memory. He went on...