 This afternoon I saw something, a plaque on a street here in downtown Milwaukee. It offers a chilling sense of deja vu. On October 14, 1912, here in Milwaukee, Teddy Roosevelt, who was campaigning for the White House, was the target of an assassination attempt. A saloon keeper named John Schrank fired a bullet that hit Roosevelt in the chest, his eyeglass case, and a folded copy of the 50-page speech he was about to give kept it from penetrating his lung.