I te 6 o Hepetema, 1901, i haere a Perehitini McKinley ki te Pan-American Exposition i Buffalo i te wa i pupuhi ai ia
nā Leon Czolgosz i tuhi. I te hararei a te Perehitini Tuarua a Roosevelt i Vermont, ka haere ki Buffalo ki te toro ki a McKinley i te hohipera. I puta mai ka ora ake a McKinley, no reira ka haere a Roosevelt ki tetahi haerenga kaainga me te haerenga hikoi ki Maunga Marcy i nga Adirondacks. I ngā maunga, i whakamōhio atu tētahi kaihauhau ki a ia kei te mate a McKinley. I whakaaroaro a Roosevelt me tana wahine, a Edith, me pehea te whakautu pai, kaore i te hiahia ki te whakaatu ki Buffalo ka tatari ki te mate o McKinley. I hohoro a Roosevelt i te raupapa o nga kaikawe ki te teihana tereina o North Creek. I te teihana, i hoatu ki a Roosevelt he waea e kii ana kua mate te Perehitini McKinley i te 2:30 AM, Mahuru 14, 1901. I haere tonu te Perehitini hou ma te tereina mai i North Creek ki Buffalo. I tae ia ki Buffalo i muri mai i taua ra, i whakaae ki te tono kia noho ki te kaainga o Ansley Wilcox (i tenei wa ko te Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site). I reira, i te ahiahi o te Mahuru 14, 1901, i whakahaua ai e te Kai-whakawa a Hazel te oati ki a Roosevelt.