Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi
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#2Not a huge fan of this nattering, stream-of-consciousness screed. But thanks for posting, got another domain and family to add to my organization’s PiHole.
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#3This is awesome
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#4This is all good, but the best was last imho.
> Two years after his Africa trip, an assassin shot him [Roosevelt] while he climbed a podium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bullet went through his reading glasses cases, a thick sheet of papers bearing his speech, and into his chest. Undeterred, the badass ex-president climbed to the podium and started a 90-minute speech with “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.”
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#5They don't make them like that any more
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#6Apparently he successfully sued a publication for libel after they said "Roosevelt gets drunk, and that not infrequently, and all his intimates know it."
https://www.nytimes.com/1913/05/24/archives/roosevelts-libel...
More: https://vinepair.com/articles/roosevelt-drinking-habits/
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#7As 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 pants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_myjOr0OU
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#8They 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.
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#9They 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.
Reagan survived an attempt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ron...
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#10As 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?