Why Not?!

[Argabarga]

I believe Teddy Roosevelt also got shot. He not only survived, he finished the speech he was giving!

Indeed. But, at the time of his shooting, he was not President, having finished his term.

He was running for Pres. again, as a 3rd party candidate (because he was thoroughly disappointed with how his successor, Taft, was running things) when he was shot en route to a campaign rally. He gave his speech, showed off the wound to the crowd, and only then sought medical treatment, wherin the doctors advised him to just leave it alone since the bullet didn't hit anything vital. He went on to finish second in the election, he didn't win the office, but he did successfully knock Taft out of the race.

[Jester]

I believe Teddy Roosevelt also got shot. He not only survived, he finished the speech he was giving!

[Cia]

It gets better, an additional four SURVIVED legitimate and serious assassination attempts, with one surviving being actually shot (Reagan) and three having people get uncomfortably close to them with guns before being stopped (Jackson, Truman, Ford)

Jackson's notable for the fact that there was no secret service in his day, and when his assassin attacked him with a pistol, Jackson pulled out his cane and nearly beat the guy to death before his aides restrained him. They didn't call him "Old Hickory" for nothing.

With a nickname like that are you sure it was a 'cane' he pulled out?

[Argabarga]

And people say Australians are careless when all we did was lose one!

It gets better, an additional four SURVIVED legitimate and serious assassination attempts, with one surviving being actually shot (Reagan) and three having people get uncomfortably close to them with guns before being stopped (Jackson, Truman, Ford)

Jackson's notable for the fact that there was no secret service in his day, and when his assassin attacked him with a pistol, Jackson pulled out his cane and nearly beat the guy to death before his aides restrained him. They didn't call him "Old Hickory" for nothing.

[KatherineB]

As it turns out, no fewer than eight Presidents expired before their terms, and 4 of them were shot.

So much for that wishful thinking.......

And people say Australians are careless when all we did was lose one!

[Monterey Jack]

FWIW: William Henry Harrison has the dubious honor of being the shortest-tenured US President, lasting a mere 32 days before dying of pneumonia.

There's Tyler / There's Taylor / There's Fillmore / And there's Hayes / There's William Henry Harrison / "I died in thirty days!"

[Argabarga]

FWIW: William Henry Harrison has the dubious honor of being the shortest-tenured US President, lasting a mere 32 days before dying of pneumonia.

He's most famous for basically dying and setting the standard for the VP stepping up when a sitting President kicks the bucket, since the Constitution was very vague on the matter and prior to him, it had never happened before. The Founding Fathers apparently believed that having the office of President up for grabs every 4 years meant they'd never have to plan for a succession contingency.

As it turns out, no fewer than eight Presidents expired before their terms, and 4 of them were shot.

So much for that wishful thinking.......

[Cecily]

Thanks! The things you learn on this site...

[taxguykarl]

I didn't get the tiler joke I never got US history since I'm on the Canuck side of the border.

Here you go.

[Cecily]

You can have good gnus and bad gnus.

I didn't get the tiler joke I never got US history since I'm on the Canuck side of the border.

[Argabarga]

No gnus is good gnus

[Cat Herder]

Was it a new gnu enclosure for their new gnu?

[Cat Herder]

a gnu, which they put in a new enclosure.

In what other type of enclosure would one put a gnu?

*ducks*

[Jester]

I did. And I did.

[Ironclad Alibi]

The gnu one is terrible, but I laughed. I fear that only history buffs will get it. Hell, it took ME a moment to get it!

It helps to read it out loud. And to have had the proper US history lessons.