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Political Courtesy

December 2023
1min read

A sidelight on the shooting of Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912 that was described in “The Time Machine” (September/October): The Democratic candidate, Governor Wilson, announced that his campaign would remain on hold until Roosevelt was back in action. As far as I know, American politics has offered nothing like that since.

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