Teddy Roosevelt Born: Trust-Buster and Conservation Champion
Theodore Roosevelt became president at 42 after an assassin killed McKinley — the youngest man ever to hold the office. He used it in ways no president had before: busting trusts, building the Panama Canal, mediating the Russo-Japanese War, setting aside 230 million acres as protected land. He got shot during a campaign speech in 1912. The bullet lodged in his chest, slowed by his steel glasses case and a folded speech. He gave the speech anyway — fifty minutes — before going to the hospital.
October 27, 1858
168 years ago
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