“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible,” he said. “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”9 It was a mic-dropping moment, but Roosevelt held on to the mic because he had more to say. He spoke for the next ninety minutes, reading through his fifty-page speech that had saved his life by slowing the path of the bullet. (Despite the extraordinary display of fortitude, Roosevelt lost the 1912 election.)
