This brief 1918 clip of Theodore Roosevelt comes to us courtesy of the Library of Congress channel on YouTube. The former President was in Manhattan to be an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of onetime New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchell. I’m pretty sure you could have baked some beans in Roosevelt’s hat.

According to nyc.gov, Mitchell, known as the “Boy Mayor” because he was elected to the post in 1914 at the mere age of 35, was a crusader against corruption and the drafter of the city’s first comprehensive budget. The city won acclaim for his waste-cutting and proper management, but Mitchell was not reelected. He subsequently enlisted in the Army Air Service to fight in WWI and died in a plane crash while doing his military training in Louisiana.