#Attempted Assassination of Theodore Roosevelt

[deadpresidents]

Everyone knows about Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy, the quartet of America Presidents who fell victim to assassination. Even the most casual observers of Presidential history can probably name the four Presidents who were murdered while in office, and many even know the names of the four assassins responsible for their deaths: Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, and Oswald.

There have also been quite a few (in)famous unsuccessful assassination attempts, where Presidents barely escaped with their lives, that many Americans are familiar with, including (but not limited to):

•Richard Lawrence's miraculously unlucky double misfire on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in 1835 which left Andrew Jackson unharmed but resulted in Lawrence -- who would be found not guilty by reason of insanity -- getting viciously pummeled by the cane-wielding President Jackson until Davy Crockett intervened to save the would-be assassin from the 67-year-old President. •The shooting of former President Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee as he sought another term in the White House during the 1912 Presidential election. Despite being shot in the chest, Roosevelt decided to go ahead and deliver his campaign speech before being taken to the hospital where doctors discovered that the bullet lodged inside of TR had first passed through a case for his eyeglasses and the thick pages of his speech in his jacket's pocket, lessening the damage from the gunshot. •The attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami in February 1933, just seventeen days in before FDR's Inauguration, which wounded four people and killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. •The ill-fated 1950 attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists to storm Blair House (the temporary Presidential residence during the renovation of the White House) and kill President Harry S. Truman as he was napping. Truman was not hurt, but a White House Police Officer and one of the two assassins were killed during the wild shootout. •President Gerald Ford's trouble with two California women who separately tried to kill him in Sacramento and then San Francisco just two weeks apart in September 1975. •The shocking shooting of President Ronald Reagan in broad daylight from just a few yards away as he exited the Washington Hilton following a speech in March 1981, which left four people wounded and very nearly killed the 70-year-old Reagan just two months into his Presidency.

But what is amazing is that, in this age of instant information and the constant regurgitation of media coverage via the 24-hour news cycle, very few Americans know that there is a man sitting in prison in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia for attempting to assassinate President George W. Bush. What even less Americans realize is how close Vladimir Arutyunian actually came to accomplishing his task.

On May 10, 2005, President Bush spoke to a large crowd at an outdoor rally in Tbilisi, Georgia. In one of the photos at the top of this post, Bush is seen speaking from the stage in Tbilisi. The other photo is of Arutyunian holding a plaid handkerchief close to his chest. Wrapped in that handkerchief was a live hand grenade.

As President Bush spoke, nearby sat his wife, Laura, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and the Dutch-born First Lady of Georgia, Sandra Roelofs. They had no idea that, during the speech, Arutyunian tossed his handkerchief-wrapped grenade towards the stage. The grenade landed just 61 feet away from President Bush, well within range of causing serious injury, if not death.

Of course, the grenade did not explode. At first, it was thought to be a dud, but upon closer inspection it was discovered that the only reason the grenade didn't explode was because Arutyunian's handkerchief -- used to conceal the explosive as he stood in the crowd -- was wrapped too tightly around the grenade, preventing the firing pin from deploying. A Georgian security official noticed the grenade, grabbed it quickly and disposed of it as Arutyunian disappeared into the massive crowd and President Bush continued speaking.

After Bush's speech was over and once it was recognized that the President had only narrowly escaped a legitimate attempted assassination, Georgian police worked closely with the United States Secret Service, the FBI, and the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the assassination attempt and find the would-be assassin who seemingly melted into Tbilisi after his brazen, albeit unsuccessful attempt on Bush's life. Using DNA evidence and tips from informants, the Georgian police ultimately tracked down Arutyunian two months later. When they went to arrest Arutyunian, a gunfight broke out and Arutyunian killed Zurab Kvlividze, a top counterterrorism official with Georgia's Interior Ministry. Arutyunian was wounded before finally being captured with the assistance of Georgian Special Forces.

The Georgians tried Arutyunian on the murder of the police officer, as well as the attempted assassinations of President Bush and President Saakshvili. Arutyunian was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. A federal grand jury in the United States also indicted Arutyunian on the federal charge of the attempted assassination of the President of the United States, which is a felony. The U.S., however, has not attempted nor has any potential plans to extradite the failed assassin from Georgia, and Arutyunian will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in a Georgian prison.

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[victortalkingmachine]

obsessed with this

#why three guinea pigs specifically.. #john schrank #i was looking at 'the attempted assassination of ex-president theodore roosevelt' for. uh. reasons. and i should really get to reading this #in full! it seems neat

[porciaenjoyer]

HII . uhm do you have any cool booth facts .... i think his Interesting & sometimes have thoughts on him but many so i would like to know YOUR thoughts about him. also heresa charles j guiteau fun fact because i apparently do have thoughts about that guy. his dad believed he was possessed by satan which then spurred him to go "no actually im gods special guy he talks to me & im going to preach a new gospel". also he chose an ivory handle for his gun to kill garfield because he though it would look prettier in a museum. weird guy

first of all YEAH guiteau was so weird. they (booth, guiteau, czolgosz, and oswald) were all such strange individuals and the same goes for like. everyone who attempted to assassinate a president. there have been some really weird attempts in general too! a guy planned to crash a plane into the white house to kill nixon but it didn’t happen and the plane never even took off. another guy decided not to kill jfk after seeing him with his family. then of course there were the attempts against jackson (jackson beat the guy up) and theodore roosevelt (shot right before a speech, gave the speech anyway) and ford (two attempted assassinations in the span of 16ish days) …. and a lot more that i don’t care to mention.. but hm yeah this reminds me where the hell is the encyclopedia of assassinations that i ordered from thriftbooks. i have no idea when it’s going to be delivered.

my coolest and most favourite booth fact is that in 1864, booth and his two brothers edwin + junius brutus jr starred in a production of julius caesar. this was the only time they all acted together. the play was just for one night to raise money to build a statue of shakespeare in central park (side note i’m going to see that statue in march!!!!!!!!). stay tuned for my booth website if i get more time to work on it bee tee doubleyou..

#epistulae #potus stuff #i guess?

[smbhax]

First photo of Leon F. Czolgosz after his shooting of US President William McKinley in 1901, photos illustrating the assassination attempt, as McKinley shook hands with the public at the Pan-American Exposition’s Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, and Czolgosz’s booking photo. [1][2][3] Though not directly fatal, the wound became gangrenous, and McKinley died a week later. The Exposition continued for another two weeks. Czolgosz was executed three weeks after it ended. At the time, US Presidents lacked a regular security detail. “Though it still lacked any legislative mandate, by 1902, the Secret Service (a unit of the Treasury) was protecting President Theodore Roosevelt full-time. [...] In 1906, Congress passed legislation officially designating the Secret Service as the agency in charge of presidential security.” [4]

#leon f czolgosz #leon czolgosz #us history #history #assassination #secret service #1900s #william mckinley #prison #imprisonment #assassin #pan american expo #pan american exposition #temple of music #buffalo ny #world's fair #leslie's weekly

[historyandarthijinks]

#7 Quick Facts

American Presidents

Calvin Coolidge enjoyed buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for them.

Herbert Hoover refused his salary for presidency. Instead he gave all his federal paychecks to charity.

Theodore Roosevelt made the world record for most handshakes during one day. Which would be 8,513 handshakes at a white house reception, on January 1st 1907.

William Howard Taft went for a bath one day in the white house only to get stuck because he was morbidly obese. A new larger bath tub had to be made for him.

Barrack Obama went for a down to earth style campaign. While in Indiana he frequently stopped to play basketball with people, due to the state having a basketball obsession.

Theodore Roosevelt was shot by an assassination attempt while giving a speech. A metal glasses case stopped the bullet. Roosevelt proceeded to mock the attempted assassin, and continued giving the speech.

George Washington became close friends with Marquis de Lafayette, so close in fact Lafayette named one of his sons after the first president.

George Washington got the idea to only rule for one term through trying times, then step down from roman emperor Cincinnatus. Who only ruled Rome to aid it through hard times then promptly stepped down.

John Quincy Adams is credited for having one of the most dangerous pets in the white house, that being an alligator given to him by Marquis de Lafayette.

James Madison had a pet parrot named Polly that proceeded to outlive both him and his wife.

Ulysses S. Grant came from a big civil rights family, so much so that when he went to marry a woman whose family owned slaves, his parents refused to attend the wedding.

Before Calvin Coolidge died he confided in a friend, “I feel I no longer fit in with these times.”, later he died unexpectedly from a blood clot/heart attack.

Lyndon B. Johnson would sing duets with his dog Yuki for white house guess, because the dog loved to howl alongside his singing.

Donald Trump is the only president to not have any pets.

Joe Biden is a major lover of German Shepherds, and adopted a cat after it jumped onto a stage during a rally in Pennsylvania.

#american presidents #facts #interesting facts #history #american history #presidents #us presidents #united states history #usa history #usa #united states #quick facts #pets #weird facts

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.14 (before 1950)

1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings. 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England. 1656 – The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends. 1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch. 1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1774 – American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions. 1791 – The revolutionary group the United Irishmen is formed in Belfast, Ireland leading to the Irish Rebellion of 1798. 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm. 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. 1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France. 1843 – Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy. 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia. 1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. 1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene. 1898 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106. 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series. 1910 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C. 1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. 1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. 1915 – World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers. 1920 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories. 1923 – After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial. 1930 – The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement. 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference. 1939 – World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. 1940 – World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz. 1943 – World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout. 1943 – World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt. 1943 – World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president. 1947 – Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound. 1949 – The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.

#Events

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From Iran to the US: Our History of Coups Has Come Home to Roost

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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

August 19th marked the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first democratically-elected prime minister of Iran. It was the first coup d’état in the modern era orchestrated by the United States, launching decades of coups, assassinations and “regime change.” While Iran’s grim anniversary generated scant attention in the U.S., one attempted coup was in the news, as defendants in the Fulton County, Georgia election interference case against former president Donald Trump and his 18 co-conspirators began surrendering for arrest. This is the second indictment served on Trump for his attempted coup against the United States following his 2020 election defeat. The Trump-summoned mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol almost stopped the peaceful transfer of power. The violence on January 6th, 2021, though, was just a shadow of the bloodshed that accompanied countless U.S.-sponsored interventions around the globe.

Pres. Dwight Eisenhower’s administration was directly involved in Mossadegh’s overthrow. But it had help. The CIA was just six years old in 1953. Britain’s spy agency, MI6, by comparison, had been around for decades, had two world wars behind it and had fomented uprisings and intrigue the world over as Britain struggled to maintain its waning empire. By the 1950s, the British empire’s lifeblood was petroleum, pumped from Iran’s oil fields by the British-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. In 1951, tired of being plundered, the Iranian parliament nationalized its oil industry. The movement was led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, who not long after was elected Prime Minister. He would remain in office for just over a year, as the US and the UK plotted to retake control of Iran’s oil.

The extent to which MI6 partnered with the CIA in Mossadegh’s ouster was revealed when a remarkable documentary, “Coup 53,” premiered in 2019. The film, directed by Taghi Amirani, an Iranian-born physicist turned filmmaker, uncovered the coup’s long-concealed direction by an MI6 operative named Norman Darbyshire.

“We all grew up with the story of the CIA coup run by Kermit Roosevelt,” Amirani said on the Democracy Now! news hour. He was describing Kermit Roosevelt, recruited by CIA Director Allen Dulles and his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, to be the CIA’s point person on the Iran coup. He was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt gave numerous interviews, practically bragging that he brought $1 million into Iran for the coup, but only spent $60,000 of it.

“Kermit …was more of a bagman and an adventurist,” Amirani said, going on to describe MI6’s principal Iran operative: “Darbyshire was in Iran from the age of 19 as a soldier. He spoke probably better Persian than me. He knew the Iranian street. He really understood the psyche of the Iranian mob, as he says in the interview in our film. He knows how to turn them, what buttons to press.”

Amirani’s research for “Coup 53” uncovered troves of forgotten material. He found a transcript of an interview with Darbyshire. When the initial CIA-led coup attempt failed, a mercenary mob hired by Darbyshire swept through Tehran, surrounded Mossadegh’s house, and, with the help of rebellious army officers, attacked the residence and arrested Mossadegh.

The U.S. and Britain installed a puppet, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as the Shah of Iran. He ruled for a quarter century, guided by the CIA in the creation of SAVAK, a brutal state security apparatus that terrorized and killed Iranians who dared speak out. In 1979, the Shah was overthrown during the Iranian Revolution, ushering in strict theocratic rule that persists to this day.

Amirani’s research brought him to the non-profit National Security Archives in Washington, DC, which pries classified documents from the U.S. government for public access. One key CIA document obtained by the Archive in 2013 reads, “The military coup that overthrew Mossadeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government.”

In one chilling interstitial in “Coup 53,” document boxes that line the wall of the Archive’s reading room scroll by, listing successive US-sponsored coups, attempted coups, and military interventions that followed the overthrow of Mossadegh:

Arbenz (Guatemala, 1954), Lumumba (Congo, 1961), Trujillo (Dominican Republic, 1961), Diem (Vietnam, 1963), Goulart (Brazil, 1964), Sukarno (Indonesia, 1965), Salvador Allende (Chile, 1973), and others from the invasion of Grenada in 1983 to the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the 1980s, the ongoing attempts to overthrow the governments of Cuba and Venezuela, to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Hopefully, confronting a homegrown attempted coup, with the multiple prosecutions of Donald Trump and his co-defendants, will hasten a reckoning with our nation’s violent history plotting coups abroad. On the 70th anniversary of the coup in Iran, such self-reflection is long overdue."

[bargainsleuthbooks]

#ARC The Last Charge of the Rough Rider: Theodore Roosevelt's Last Days by William Hazelgrove #BookReview

There's a new biography coming out on the final years of #TheodoreRoosevelt. Normally I'd love a book that explored a lesser known time of #TR's life, but this book was not a hit with me. #Thelastchargeoftheroughrider #williamhazelgrove #lyonsbooks

There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg from an accident, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt, in the last two years of his life from April 1917 to January 6, 1919, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his…

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#ARC #ARC Review #Book Review #June 2023 Books #Lyons Press #NetGalley #New Book Release #New Books #Rowan Littlefield #Spanish American War #Teddy Roosevelt #The Last Charge of the Rough Rider #Theodore Roosevelt #TR #William Hazelgrove #Woodrow Wilson

[tonkicollective]

Elex wiki slug beast

#Elex wiki slug beast windows 10

Advertised as beneficial to all citizens, it was in reality a contingency plan in order to save the Board and corporations from annihilation. The Board, knowing it could never sustain the population and maintain their power in the current situation, decided to implement a Lifetime Employment Program. The Stranger takes command of the ship Unreliable and soon becomes embroiled in a vast conspiracy that threatens to destroy the Halcyon colony. The Stranger can either help MSI regain their strength or unite with the semi-anarchist organization, the Iconoclasts.Ī rogue scientist named Phineas Vernon Welles discovers the Hope, rescuing the Stranger from the Hope and sending them to Terra 2. This corporation, mainly their CEO Sanjar Nandi, was trying to recover their place in the Board by implicating another company in their illicit activities on the planet declared off limits by the Board. However, one corporation took advantage of the chaos and remained on Monarch, re-branding themselves as Monarch Stellar Industries. With the terraforming process triggering uncontrolled mutations in the local flora and fauna, the Board was forced to abandon the planet, leaving it a lawless and dangerous place where only criminals and monsters dwelled. Alas, the animosity between Edgewater and the Deserters prevented the cure from being spread among the town's population.Īnother problem for the Board was their first failed colonization attempt on the planet Terra 1, now known as Monarch. However, those who chose to leave the town and became Deserters, lead by a woman named Adelaide McDevitt, found a way to grow crops on Terra 2's soil using ground-up human remains as fertilizer, and discovered a way to fight the disease. With the only food source within the town's walls being the locally-produced canned saltuna, the population started to develop symptoms of the plague. To make matters worse, malnutrition caused a new disease, commonly known as the plague, to spread among the citizens of the Spacer's Choice-owned town of Edgewater. This suppressant was supposed to be used in a form of tooth paste and would allegedly allow to reduce the amount of resources that people consume, thus winning time form the scientists to devise a more permanent solution. To counter this, the Board commissioned their chief scientists to develop any means necessary, such as powerful appetite suppressant, derived from raptidons. The main problem being slow and subtle starvation of the entire population due to Earth food being too low in nutrients. Despite the assurances of the Board, life in the colony is far from perfect. Thirty-five years later, the colony is in fact on the verge of complete collapse. The Hope is moved into orbit over the ice planet Typhon and its existence covered up. Since Halcyon was colonized through other means, the Hope is unexpectedly found adrift with its colonists unable to be revived and the Halcyon Holdings Corporate Board decided to abandon the colonists. During its journey, the ship's skip drive malfunctions and it is forced to continue using its sublight engines, extending the trip from ten years to sixty. The Stranger, also known as "the unknown variable", is a passenger aboard the colony ship Hope, which is bound for the distant Halcyon system, wholly owned and operated by corporations. The game takes place in the year 2355 in the Halcyon System. As a result, Theodore Roosevelt never succeeded McKinley as President and large business trusts were never broken up, leading to a hyper-corporate, class centric society dominated by the power of mega-corporations and robber barons, which by the distant future, have begun to colonize space. The Outer Worlds is set in an alternate timeline, with the point of divergence beginning when United States President William McKinley was not assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in 1901. A Nintendo Switch version was also released on June 5, 2020.

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The game was released on the Epic Store, Windows 10 store, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One (as well as Xbox Game Pass) on October 25, 2019, with the Steam release to follow in 2020. Outer Worlds, as a result, is heavily inspired by the Fallout franchise with many elements being ported over. The game's development is spearheaded by Fallout creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky. Development on Outer Worlds began sometime prior to Microsoft's acquisition of Obsidian Entertainment in 2018 Private Division had also managed to secure publishing rights before the buyout.

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[bobmccullochny]

September History

September 14, 1741 - Composer George Frederick Handel finished Messiah after working on it nonstop for 23 days.

September 14, 1812 - Napoleon and his troops first entered Moscow as the retreating Russians set the city on fire. Napoleon found it was impossible to stay through the winter in the ruined city. He then began a retreat from Moscow which became one of the great disasters of military history. Fewer than 20,000 of the original 500,000 men with him survived the Russian campaign.

September 14, 1901 - Eight days after being shot, President William McKinley died from wounds suffered during an assassination attempt in Buffalo, New York. He was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

September 14, 1927 - In Nice, France, famed ballet dancer Isadora Duncan was killed in a freak accident as the long scarf she was wearing became caught in the moving wheel of the car in which she was riding, strangling her.

September 14, 1930 - The Nazi Party became the second largest party in Germany following a stunning election triumph by Adolf Hitler.

September 14, 1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed by representatives of oil-producing countries meeting in Baghdad.

September 14, 1975 - Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first American saint.

September 14, 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco died following an accident in which her car plunged off a mountain road in Monte Carlo. Her daughter Stephanie, also in the car, survived and was treated for shock and bruises. Princess Grace (Grace Kelly) was a Hollywood actress who met Prince Rainier III of Monaco during filming of the Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief. She then gave up a successful acting career and married him in 1956.

#History

[georgebucket]

Chest x-ray of Theodore Roosevelt taken on 14 October 1912 after he was shot during an assassination attempt. Doctors deemed the bullet too dangerous to remove and Roosevelt carried it for the rest of his life

[victortalkingmachine]

btw during the post-quiz bowl match lunch earlier this week (?that's when it was right) i and this new team member were saying things about the attempted assassination of theodore roosevelt and at one point he said it happened in 1912 and then later the quiz bowl leader teacher was saying something related and turned to him and said "...in 1912, right?" and it made me so irrationally angry like yes he said that but i am the one who is interested in assassinations why don't you ask ME..

#i am putting emphasis on ''irrationally'' before anyone thinks to tell me that i'm being weird here. i know already 😑 #(also for some information: he knew about it because he likes theodore roosevelt.)

[xtruss]

Who Knew? U.S. Presidential Trivia

Which president was the first to visit all 50 states? How many presidents died while in office? Put your knowledge to the test and read up on these historical fast facts.

— By John Roach

Getting Into The Campaign Spirit, We Compiled The Following Presidential Trivia:

How They Measured Up

The smallest President was James Madison (Presidential term 1809-17). The fourth President, Madison stood 5 feet, 4 inches (163 centimeters) tall and weighed less than 100 pounds (45 kilograms).

The tallest President was Abraham Lincoln (1861-65). He stood 6 feet, 4 inches (193 centimeters) tall.

The heaviest President was William Howard Taft (1909-13), who sometimes tipped the scales at more than 300 pounds (136 kilograms) during his tenure. After he became stuck in the White House bathtub, Taft ordered a new one installed. The replacement was big enough to hold four grown men of average size.

The oldest President ever elected was Ronald Reagan (1981-89). The 40th President took office at the age of 69.

The youngest elected President was John F. Kennedy (1961-63), who reached the White House at 43. But the youngest President to ever serve was Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09), who was elected Vice President on a ticket with President William McKinley. In September 1901 a deranged anarchist shot McKinley twice in Buffalo, New York, and Roosevelt assumed the top office at 42.

At Play

Benjamin Harrison (1889-93), the 23nd President, was the first President to attend a baseball game. He saw the Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Senators 7 to 4 on June 6, 1892.

William Taft started the tradition of the Presidential "first pitch" of baseball season. The event took place on April 4, 1910, during an opening day game between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.

Since Taft's first pitch, every President but one has opened at least one baseball season during their tenure. The exception: Jimmy Carter (1977-1981).

John Quincy Adams (1825-29), the sixth President, customarily took a nude early morning swim in the Potomac River.

George Washington (1789-1797), Thomas Jefferson (1801-09), and John Adams (1797-1801) were all avid collectors and players of marbles.

Assassination and Death

Four sitting Presidents have been assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1897-1901), and John F. Kennedy (1961-63).

Six other Presidents were luckier and survived their assassination attempts: Andrew Jackson (1829-37), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09), Franklin Roosevelt (1933-45), Harry Truman (1945-53), Gerald Ford (1974-77), and Ronald Reagan (1981-89).

Other Presidents Have Died While in Office:

William Henry Harrison (1841), the ninth President, died of pneumonia one month to the day after making—in the snow—the longest U.S. presidential inauguration speech on record.

Zachary Taylor (1849-50), the 12th President, died in 1850 of an inflamed stomach and intestines just 16 months after he took office.

Warren Harding (1921-23), who presided over a scandal-plagued administration, died suddenly on August 2, 1923. Medical records suggest Harding battled high blood pressure and died of a heart attack. But rumors at the time claimed Harding either took his own life or was poisoned by his wife, who sought to end Harding's notorious philandering.

John Adams (1797-1801), the second President, and Thomas Jefferson (1801-09), the third President, both died on July 4, 1826. Calvin Coolidge (1923-29), the 30th President, was born on July 4, 1872.

Geography

The first President born a U.S. citizen was Martin Van Buren (1837-41). Van Buren was delivered on December 5, 1782, making him the first President born after the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Virginia is the birthplace of the greatest number of Presidents. It boasts eight. Thirty-one states have never claimed a native son as President.

Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to travel abroad while in office; he visited the Panama Canal in 1906.

In 1943 Franklin Roosevelt made the first Presidential flight.

Richard Nixon was the first President to visit all 50 states.

Bill Clinton set a record for the most trips abroad: 133.

Elections and Politics

George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President, lost the popular vote to Al Gore in 2000. Bush is the fourth President to attain the highest office in the U.S. without the backing of the majority of the people. He shares the distinction with John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-81), and Benjamin Harrison.

James Monroe (1817-25), the fifth President, received every Electoral College vote except one. The holdout: a New Hampshire delegate who wanted to preserve the legacy of George Washington, the first and only President elected unanimously by the Electoral College.

Gerald Ford (1974-77) was the only President to serve who was not elected by U.S. voters either as President or Vice President. In 1973 then-President Richard Nixon (1969-74) appointed Ford Vice President after former Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. When Nixon resigned from the White House on August 9, 1974 (the only President to do so), Ford became President.

Bill Clinton (1993-2001), the 42nd President, was the second President to be impeached. In 1998 Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate. Andrew Johnson was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1868, but he was also later acquitted by the Senate.

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives of the 116th United States Congress on December 18, 2019. The House adopted two articles of impeachment against Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Later Senators voted 57-43 to acquit him on whether to convict Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors for “willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”

George W. Bush is the second President to follow in the footsteps of his father. George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st President. John Quincy Adams (1825-29), the sixth President, was the son of John Adams (1797-1801), the second President.

[anonymous-dentist]

while it wasn’t his inaugural speech, i think it would be really funny if genloss was about ranboo traveling back in time to make sure that theodore roosevelt didn’t survive that one assassination attempt

#shoutout to that time he got shot during a speech and kept giving the speech #and then tried going down and beating the shit out of the dude that shot him #but instead got ushered to the hospital #against his will

[relaxxattack]

a list of things that made me laugh while rereading knifetrick...again (this is a long list im so sorry)

"because hes classy like that"

"Rans large catlike eyes crinkle up at the sides" (ran catboy real)

"he’s currently… “adapting to new and different challenges”.

Yes, that’s a more polite explanation. You could say that at a job interview."

"‘Slow acting poison’, Ran’s ass."

“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,"

"He’s not very intellectual. He acts on his feet. He’s trained to fight, but not trained in stealth. He’s sadistically cheerful. He’s non-suspicious, trusting. He should, really, be quite easy to off."

"I hate it here. I hate having to teach these people how to defend themselves like babies. I hate you, especially, and I am going to poison your water as soon as we take a lunch break. “It’s going well,”"

"“General Jackie’s not… vulnerable, enough, with me,” Ran tries, hoping to whatever gods are listening that his wording isn’t too suspicious'

“So it’s relationship advice you need… oh dear.” (watson my beloved)

"That poison was dumb poison and it had failed him'

"apparently those things can jam, and apparently the castle guard doesn’t let just anybody up onto the roof at five in the morning"

"Oh, and there’s also some kids that are missing"

(once i reread the rest there will probably be more but yeah <3 your writing is amazing and i adore it)

AW haha i love that!

ALSO the “ladies and gentlemen, i dont know whether you understand that i have just been shot” isn’t actually original! i was reading up on famous assassination attempts while i was writing that chapter, and that’s actually a quote from theodore roosevelt!

[cwritesfiction]

Which of your OCs would accidentally roleplay as Theodore Roosevelt for an entire day?

kadslfjaklsd;jfa;s how dare you

(context)

Non-dishonesty hour fact: Teddy Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt. He was shot but didn't die because the bullet first went through the 50 page speech he happened to be carrying in his pocket. Despite being shot, he proceeded to give the speech anyway.

With this in mind, I believe the character most likely to accidentally roleplay Theodore Roosevelt would be Chester.

#dishonesty hour