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He also got shot in the chest at the beginning of a speech, calmed everybody down and told the crowd to give the assassin to the police and make sure nobody hurt him, and then spoke for 50 minutes before he left to get medical care.
He said later that because he wasn’t coughing blood, he was confident the bullet hadn’t pierced his lung, so he could go for a while before needing it looked at.
Before the invention of TV stupefied everybody, America was fuckin WILD.
I forget which president it was, but I remember that one of them would frequently insist on bathing in the Potomac.
That was John Quincy Adams. I remember because I also learned that he did this nude, an image I've been trying to get out of my head for 30 years.
You've been trying to get that image out of your head for 30 years? How often do you have to try hard not to picture John Quincy Adams naked?