Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
September 8-10, 1901
As McKinley's condition continued to improve, Roosevelt felt it was safe to leave Buffalo. On Tuesday night he took an all night train to the Adirondacks where his family was already on vacation. He left detailed instructions with Ansley Wilcox on the chance that he would be asked to return to Buffalo.
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Did You Know?
President James Garfield was the second American president to be assassinated. He had been shot in 1881, only 16 years after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and 20 years before President William McKinley's death.
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