After an attempted assassination attempt, in which he was actually shot, Teddy Roosevelt actually got up and gave a 90 minute campaign speech. He started out with the following:
"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. 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. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best."
– Theodore Roosevelt, Address at Milwaukee, Wis., October 14, 1912
The bullet was never removed. When asked later about the bullet still inside him, he said, "I do not mind it anymore than if it were in my waistcoat pocket."
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