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If TR could come back now, he would be furious. (Original Post) Brigid Dec 2013 OP
He would kick someone's balls first... Cooley Hurd Dec 2013 #1
 

Cooley Hurd

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1. He would kick someone's balls first...
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 10:40 PM
Dec 2013
http://www.paulgrondahl.com/i_rose_like_a_rocket__the_political_education_of_theodore_roosevelt_50744.htm

McManus had been milling about on the third floor of the Capitol with a crew of his sycophants, who were stirring up a plan to knock Roosevelt down a few notches and to pound some of the Harvard pretention out of this young, cocky newcomer. McManus was rallying coconspirators around a plan to toss Roosevelt in a blanket, an embarrassing gag of that era tantamount to the prep school prank of flushing an underclassman's head in a toilet bowl. Roosevelt had caught wind of the hazing being contemplated against him, however. He confronted the massive McManus. Although Roosevelt was a head shorter and some one hundred pounds lighter, he locked eyes with McManus and spoke through clenched teeth, the veins standing up on his sinewy neck. "By God! McManus, I hear you are going to toss me in a blanket. By God! If you try anything like that, I'll kick you, I'll bite you, I'll kick you in the balls. I'll do anything to you -- you'd better leave me alone."
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