B. Daniel Blatt
GayPatriot
3/30/2011
. . . a mentally imbalanced young man made an attempt on the life of the greatest domestic policy president of the last century. While assassins have attempted to shoot our chief executives at least since Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan was the first to survive being hit by an assassin’s bullet. Had medical technology been better a hundred years before the Gippper took office (or had White House physicians been more competent), the president with the finest undergraduate education in American history, James A. Garfield, would have completed his journey to Williams College for his twenty-fifth reunion and gone on to serve two full terms.
Shot on July 2, 1881, Garfield lingered, in extreme pain, until September 19 of that year, dying not from the bullet wound, but an infection, possibly caused by unsterilized medical equipment.
Ronald Reagan broke the curse of his predecessors elected in “0″ years. Every president since William Henry Harrison elected in a year ended in “0″ would die in office…
…Over at Powerline, Steven Hayward offers a more comprehensive report on the shooting and its aftermath.
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