Since it's President's Day, I might as well post about the most bad ass president we have ever had, Theodore Roosevelt. Here are a few facts:
-For all you Deadwood fans, he was a lifelong friend of Seth Bullock
-He was blind in his left eye because of a detached retina he got while boxing.
-Held boxing matches in the state rooms of the White House.
-Was a black belt in jujitsu.
-He is the only president to be awarded the medal of honor.
-He is the only person in the world to win his nations highest military honor and a Noble Peace Prize.
-No northwest passage? Fuck that, Roosevelt built the Panama canal.
-He thought U.S. currency was boring so he created the penny and put his hero Lincoln on it.
-He once commented that coffee he drank at the Maxwell House hotel in Tennessee was "good to the last drop." It later became the trademark of Maxwell House coffee.
-The teddy bear was named after a bear he refused to shoot on a hunt in Mississippi in 1902.
-He led went on a safari to Africe that killed or trapped 11,397 animals for American museums.
-He was once shot in the chest before making a speech during a campaign. His opening comments were: ""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." He gave the 90 minute speech with blood seeping out of his shirt.
Other badass presidential moments:
-Andrew Jackson was once approached by an assassin holding two pistols that both ended up misfiring. Both guns were inspected lated and were in perfect working order. After the guns misfired, Jackson nearly beat the man to death with his cain.
-Most rich kids dodge military duty. JFK had his dad pull strings to get him into the navy even though he was disqualified from military duty because of a bad back.
-John Quincy Adams swam across the Potomac River every morning to exercise.
-John Quincy Adams also kept a pet alligator in the east wing of the White House.