> 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.”
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
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/1913/05/24/archives/roosevelts-libel...
More: https://vinepair.com/articles/roosevelt-drinking-habits/
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-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ron...
