Fun fact: President Theodore Roosevelt was a larger-than-life character, known for many acts of derring-do and idiosyncratic personality traits. Among the tamer of these were his long speeches and his pince-nez. In 1912, someone attempted to assassinate him, taking aim and shooting him as he was about to give a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Roosevelt was knocked backward but not killed. The bullet was stopped by the contents of his breast pocket: fifty folded pages of another long speech and the steel pince-nez case. With great self-awareness (and probably an unhealthy dose of adrenaline),
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