{"id":544467,"date":"2021-05-28T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544467"},"modified":"2021-05-28T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:06:19","slug":"4-american-presidents-who-took-assassination-attempts-like-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-american-presidents-who-took-assassination-attempts-like-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"4 American Presidents Who Took Assassination Attempts Like Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F4-american-presidents-who-took-assassination-attempts-like-champs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544467&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-515169796.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>For most of American history, the men who attained election to the Oval Office came from a sturdy stock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>George Washington, for one, earned the nickname \u201cConotocarius\u201d \u2014 which translates to \u201cDevourer of Villages\u201d \u2014 from Iroquois natives when he was 21 years old. Dwight Eisenhower, for another, led the Allied forces to defeat Adolf Hitler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Without a doubt, the ruggedness of America\u2019s leaders revealed itself in their darkest moments \u2014 including near-death experiences at the hands of would-be assassins.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From brushing off physical attacks with profound humor to personally fighting back with a profound ardor, these four American Presidents took assassination attempts in their stride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Teddy Roosevelt<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>President Theodore Roosevelt was shot at during a campaign stop, then finished his speech after personally confronting his foe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Roosevelt waved to a crowd before entering his car and departing for the speech, an assailant five feet away <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/shot-in-the-chest-100-years-ago-teddy-roosevelt-kept-on-talking\"><span>fired<\/span><\/a><span> two shots from his revolver at the President. Roosevelt himself calmed members of the crowd as they began chanting for the attacker\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDon\u2019t hurt him. Bring him here. I want to see him,\u201d shouted Roosevelt.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat did you do it for?\u201d he asked the shooter. Frustrated, he said, \u201cOh, what\u2019s the use? Turn him over to the police.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Using his finger, Roosevelt located a bullet wound on the right side of his torso. After coughing three times into his hand to ensure that neither bullet had punctured his lung, Roosevelt told his driver to \u201cget me to that speech.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The bullet had been blocked by his overcoat, steel eyeglass case, and speech manuscript \u2014 a point that he made sure to emphasize with his audience.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFriends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt takes more than that to kill a bull moose,\u201d he reassured the crowd, waving the damaged manuscript.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet \u2014 there is where the bullet went through \u2014 and it probably saved me from it going into my heart,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Roosevelt glared at aides every time they attempted to end the speech early. After the event ended and Roosevelt finally consented to a hospital visit, doctors confirmed that the bullet had lodged against Roosevelt\u2019s rib on its way to his heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ronald Reagan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>President Ronald Reagan retained his trademark sense of humor even after he was nearly murdered in 1981.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As TIME Magazine <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3752477\/reagan-assassination-reaction\/\"><span>noted<\/span><\/a> <span>following the assassination attempt, Reagan quipped throughout the entirety of his experience. \u201cPlease tell me you\u2019re Republicans,\u201d he said to the attending physicians. \u201cHoney, I forgot to duck,\u201d he told his wife as she entered the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reagan was equally humorous in the aftermath of surgery. In various notes written as he emerged from operation, Reagan jotted:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll in all, I\u2019d rather be in Philadelphia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere\u2019s no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSend me to L.A., where I can see the air I\u2019m breathing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf I had this much attention in Hollywood, I\u2019d have stayed there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On the morning after surgery, he greeted White House staffers by saying: \u201cHi, fellas. I knew it would be too much to hope that we could skip a staff meeting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Andrew Jackson<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>President Andrew Jackson beat an assailant with his cane after the would-be assassin\u2019s gun misfired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Jackson exited the Capitol Building following an 1835 funeral, a bystander <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/attempted-assassination-andrew-jackson-180962526\/\"><span>pulled<\/span><\/a><span> a pistol from his jacket and attempted to kill the Commander-in-Chief at point-blank range. However, the gun misfired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The attacker pulled a second pistol, but Jackson was already preparing to defend himself. \u201cLet me alone! Let me alone! I know where this came from,\u201d yelled Jackson as he beat the attacker with his cane. Before Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett subdued the attacker, he pulled a second firearm, which also misfired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though he could never prove it, Jackson suspected that the attack came from Whig Party opponents who were resisting his attempt to dismantle the Second Bank of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Herbert Hoover<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>President Herbert Hoover was almost killed in South America; however, he downplayed the incident in an attempt to stop his wife from being worried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a 1928 trip to Argentina, anarchists attempted to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/american-presidents-escaped-assassination-attempts-2017-5#herbert-hoover-3\"><span>bomb<\/span><\/a><span> the President\u2019s train. However, the assassins were discovered and seized before they could plant the explosives on the tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hoover tore the front-page story about the attempt from a newspaper so that his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, would not worry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s just as well that Lou shouldn\u2019t see it,\u201d he remarked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of American history, the men who attained election to the Oval Office came from a sturdy stock.George Washington, for one, earned the nickname \u201cConotocarius\u201d \u2014 which translates to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313424,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-515169796.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 American Presidents Who Took Assassination Attempts Like Champs","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-515169796.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 American Presidents Who Took Assassination Attempts Like Champs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}