[Bayou City]

I know the NYT, but this was a good article about TR.

Besides carrying a bullet in his body, Colonel Roosevelt was partially blind and partially deaf. The sight of his left eye was destroyed while he was in the White House in a boxing match.

This part I havn't heard before, he was one tough dude. Can you picture TR challenging Chiraq to a boxing match!

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[Johnny_Cipher]

At his death Colonel Roosevelt carried in his body the bullet which was fired by Schrank, at Milwaukee during the Presidential campaign of 1912, which nearly resulted in Colonel Roosevelt's death, because he went on and delivered his speech immediately after the attack.

High speed, low drag. A tough man and arguably America's greatest President.

[billhilly]

"Life left his body." What better words could have been written?

[Barnacle]

[Skybird]

A great article about TR.

Note the difference in writing style from then to now--unlike today, where the perks, prestige and protocol seem to follow former presidents, back then, they usually reverted to the title of "Mister" or, in TR's case, "Colonel" as he was last known in the military.

Bully!

[Travis McGee]

It's believed that he also carried parasites in his body from his Amazon trips. The man was something. He was almost certain to win the presidency.....

[BulletBobCo]

Bully Bump

[Chu Gary]

In other news, General Francisco Franco is still dead!

[SerpentDove]

Isn't that something? And all this time I thought he was already dead.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Thanks so much for posting this, BC!

I read Roosevelt's Wilderness Writings over the Christmas break, and enjoyed it immensely. It contains an incredible account of his trip down the 'Unknown River.' Really looking forward to sourcing a biography and some more of his writings.

[The Westerner]

Bump to finish later.

What a difference in style compared to today! Who, what, when, where, how in the first sentence. Simple eloquence of prose, easy to read. Factual, chronological, contextual.

Thank you for bringing us back to the old days.

[auboy]

Thanks for sharing this!

[Democratshavenobrains]

"an old negro servant of the family"

Gotta love the way those old timers wrote

[NYCVirago]

Hey, shouldn't this be posted in breaking news? ;)

[Allan]

Theodore Roosevelt
former President of the United States
died this morning between 4 and 4:15 o'clock
while asleep in his bed at his home on Sagamore Hill.

[MattAMiller]

What suprises me is how modern the style of writing is. There are some archaic word choices, but beyond that it looks a whole lot like something that would be written today.

[RightWhale]

Pulmonary embolism gets a lot of people. If the embolism is in the brain, it is a stroke. If it is in the heart, it is a heart attack. If it is in the calf muscle, it is a charlie-horse.