I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you f…

Theodore Roosevelt
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I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. 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. ✨ The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.
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I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. 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. ✨ The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.

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