He also got shot in the chest at the beginning of a speech, calmed everybody down and told the crowd to give the assassin to the police and make sure nobody hurt him, and then spoke for 50 minutes before he left to get medical care.
He said later that because he wasn’t coughing blood, he was confident the bullet hadn’t pierced his lung, so he could go for a while before needing it looked at.
Before the invention of TV stupefied everybody, America was fuckin WILD.
I forget which president it was, but I remember that one of them would frequently insist on bathing in the Potomac.
John Quincy Adams.
Every day, at about 5:30 in the morning, totally naked.
Anne Royall, one of the first female journalists, allegedly forced Adams to do an interview with her by taking his clothes and refusing to give them back to him until he answered all her questions.
Andrew Jackson for his inauguration party invited literally anybody who showed up to attend, and a bunch of people got roaring drunk and wrecked up the White House.
The fuck happened to us man
More presidents should host events where citizens can punch them.
Can you imagine any of the current geriatrics taking anything more than a 6th grader’s punch?
Oh, believe me, I’m imagining it often. 😈
so often. so hard.
I think Biden could take like, 1 sixth grader down, but honestly 2 sixth graders would probably overwhelm him.
I think i could probably take 3. 4 after my coffee and adderol. 5 motivated 6th graders? I dunno, i think I’m toast
I can take on 100 at once when I’m feeling energetic, and would lose to 1 when I’m not.
Teddy is a real dichotomy to me. When I was much younger, living outside the US, i found him to be the worst that Americans represented: arrogant, bullish, and full of sovereign ignorance. Then going through college and beyond, living states side, I discovered his championship of nature and his passion for reading and education. Now a days, I can recognize him as an imperfect man trying to do the best he thought at the time. Kinda like a grumpy granddad with some ideas way ahead of his time.
