I never understood how this could be considered part of a "curse" of some sort. It's not like FDR was elected for the first time one November and then died suddenly a few months later. He was in office for about a bazillion years, and was re-elected so many times that anything other than "dies in office" would have been considered unusual for him.
Exactly, and JRK was lucky not to have been shot by some jealous husband before his deal happened.
John
It just seems odd that every President elected every twenty years beginning in 1840 died in office and even when it didn't happen with Reagan he barely survived an assassination attempt.