Teddy Roosevelt | Top 5 Facts

introducing the macho man president who spoke softly and carried a big stick here are five facts about Theodore or Teddy Roosevelt fact one health issues plagued his youth despite his robust an active later life who is a belt struggled with severe assman health problems during his youth he also experienced horrific nighttime asthma attacks to which doctors told his parents there was no cure it was Roosevelt's father who encouraged the body to train and strengthen his body back to his wife mother died on the same day on the 14th of February 1884 Roosevelt likely experienced the worst day of his life when he lost both his wife and his mother to illness in the same day in his diary he wrote a large X and one sentence below the light has gone out of my life his grief was so immense that he fell unable to care for his young daughter and left her in the care of his sister for three years fact 3 he was a cowboy teddy was very serious about his life as a cowboy not only didn't learn how to ride hunt and rope but he also fulfilled the role of deputy sheriff in one instance he chased three outlaws captured and watched over them for 40 hours without sleep by reading leo tolstoy books to stay awake fact or even bullets couldn't stop him Roosevelt was shot shortly before he was due to make a speech the bullet passed through the steel eyeglass case and 50-page speech he was carrying which likely saved his life he continued with the speech with the bullet lodged in his chest telling the audience it takes more than that to kill a bull moose fact 5 his daughter was a troublemaker Alice Musa felts daughter was known for her rebellious ways she possessed her father's quick wit but she was an ardent rule-breaker and liked to smoke gamble and go to late-night parties she even kept pet snake Roosevelt said of her I can run either the country or I can attend to Alice but I cannot possibly do both that was top five facts about the bull moose himself Teddy Roosevelt I hoped you enjoyed the video and if you'd like to see more please like and subscribe on the page thanks very much for watching and I'll see you next time