>I mean, I've heard of some presidents doing daily or weekly
>constitutionals in the Potomac, before the White House had a pool of
>its own, It's hard to verify, though, because the other meaning of the
>word "constitutional" shows up a lot more when talking about
>presidents.
>
>Roosevelt is enough of a health nut to follow that tradition, and
>unlike, say, Taft, he definitely wouldn't be difficult to watch naked.

TR did a lot of things while president that would be startling nowadays, including deliberately ditching the Secret Service while galloping a war horse through Rock Creek Park, practicing single stick fighting so vigorously that his sparring partner all but blinded him in one eye, boxing with the ambassadors of foreign powers (imagine all the falling out of monocles if something like that happened nowadays), and making no secret of the fact that he carried a gun himself rather than leaving that sort of thing to his armed security detail, but I've never heard of him swimming naked in the Potomac. Not that I wouldn't believe it if I did! As you say, he was That Kind of Guy. But I haven't heard of it. :)

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