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Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

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Re: Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

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Post by basementcat »

krapp wrote: post #8
mrlonglong wrote: post #5

They don't make them like that any more

Yeah, nowadays, when you shoot a President from across the street, they actually die. Teddy got shot point-blank in the chest and didn't even stop his speechifying.

In 1974, South Korean President Park Chung-Hee survived an assassination attempt while delivering an address. His wife was mortally wounded and carried away to an ambulance and he finished the speech.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mun_Se-gwang

President Park was eventually assassinated five years later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Park_Chung-...

Re: Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

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Post by zxv »

sandebert wrote: post #10
_doiw wrote: post #7

As people grow into maturity and are taught the minimal slivers of history they're required to know, it all comes off as so dry, just names and a condensed series of reforms. Then they form their models of the universe on that. What's lost is the irrational, the continuum of grit, the human condition, and then bizarre that's always been normal. And with that, here's an illustrated recording of president LBJ ordering…

Slightly off topic, sorry. I just have to ask if the hilarious LBJ call is authentic or fake?

LBJ's home office in Texas was preserved, and is still on display as-is to this day. On the couch is a pillow embroidered "This is my ranch, and I do as I damn please!"

Re: Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

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Post by pomian »

_doiw wrote: post #7

As people grow into maturity and are taught the minimal slivers of history they're required to know, it all comes off as so dry, just names and a condensed series of reforms. Then they form their models of the universe on that. What's lost is the irrational, the continuum of grit, the human condition, and then bizarre that's always been normal. And with that, here's an illustrated recording of president LBJ ordering…

that's a brilliant piece of history to save for posterity. also it can lead you to a rabbit hole of further recorded phone discussions with Kennedy about MLK, and so on. what a treasure.

Re: Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

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Post by _doiw »

sandebert wrote: post #10
_doiw wrote: post #7

As people grow into maturity and are taught the minimal slivers of history they're required to know, it all comes off as so dry, just names and a condensed series of reforms. Then they form their models of the universe on that. What's lost is the irrational, the continuum of grit, the human condition, and then bizarre that's always been normal. And with that, here's an illustrated recording of president LBJ ordering…

Slightly off topic, sorry. I just have to ask if the hilarious LBJ call is authentic or fake?

Authentic. And by all accounts, he was drunk-dialing in '64. Think you can hear a belch at some point.

Edit: if I recall correctly, he liked to drive people around his ranch while drinking whiskey out of a styrofoam cup, with lots of ice. When he needed a refill, he'd stick his hand out the window and shake the cup, at which point a secret service agent would sprint from the car pacing behind him to fetch him a refill.

And then there was the thing where he liked to drive new guests into a lake to scare them, since they didn't know about his amphibious vehicle, but that's a different story.

Re: Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi

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Post by twelve40 »

donclark wrote: post #17
pyetya wrote: post #15

I have no respect for this guy as he sold out the whole Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta.

What was his other option (and effort/cost/etc)?

not the OP but probably to instantly launch another bloodbath in Europe to get some "respect"? But then again, it always amazes me how strongly opinionated some people can be when they don't even read which person this whole post is about.
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