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re: Who is the most forgettable president?

Posted on 5/5/24 at 7:22 am to
Posted by LCrox
Alabama
Member since Sep 2019
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Posted on 5/5/24 at 7:22 am to
We've had multiple presidents who were assassinated or who died while in office:

William Henry Harrison - died of pneumonia
Zachary Taylor - died of either cholera or gastroenteritis
Abraham Lincoln - assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
James Garfield - assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau
William McKinley - assassinated by Leon Czolgosz
Warren Harding - died of a heart attack
John F. Kennedy - assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald

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Common connection to three on the list, besides being assassinated, is Robert Todd Lincoln. Of course, Lincoln’s son but served in the administrations of Garfield and McKinley. He was in the DC train station when Garfield was shot. RT fetched a local doctor to attend to Garfield - the same doctor who tended to his father the night he was shot. The doctor was incompetent to some degree. The book about Garfield death is called ‘Destiny of the Republic’ by Candace Millard. One tidbit was the x-ray was just being invented and they offered to x-ray Garfield to find the bullet. The ole doctor said sure but you can only x-ray Garfield’s left side…the bullet was in his right side.
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