In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was about to give a campaign speech in Milwaukee when a man shot him in the chest. The bullet passed through his steel eyeglass case and a folded 50-page speech in his coat pocket, which slowed it enough to lodge in his chest muscle rather than pierce his lung. Roosevelt checked that he wasn't coughing blood, stepped up to the podium, and delivered his 90-minute speech anyway, opening with: "Ladies and gentlemen, 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." The bullet remained in his chest for the rest of his life.