CSPAN3 Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historic Site August 25, 2016
Roosevelt as Vice President didnt have all that much to do. He was actually in buffalo three times. He came to open the pan American Exposition on president s day. William mckinley was supposed to be here, but his wife ida, who was in ill health, prevented him from coming, so roosevelt substituted for him in may of 1801. And then of course, when mckinley was shot on september 6th of 1901, roosevelt was looking for a hotel room and just by chance bumped into Ansley Wilcox and mr. Wilcox offered him his home to stay while he was in buffalo tending to the wounded president. The family is on mt. M...