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To: SJackson

Abraham Lincoln - Republican

James Garfield - Republican

William McKinley - Republican

Theodore Roosevelt (attempted) - Republican

John Kennedy - Democrat

Robert Kennedy - Democrat

Gerald Ford (attempted twice) - Republican

Ronal Reagan (attempted) - Republican

Donald J. Trump - Republican


4 posted on 07/19/2024 5:56:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

RFK wasn’t even the party nominee, and where is Gov. Wallace if listing RFK? Wallace, a democrat, was running for the 1972 nomination.


17 posted on 07/19/2024 7:08:55 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Red Badger

There was an attempt on George Wallace in the 1972 campaign.

This time he was a running as a Democrat not an independent.

What has been forgotten is that Wallace had accumulated more delegates at the time of the attempt than any other candidate.

That is not to say that he would have gotten the nomination but Wallace was running a populist campaign to what was still the base of the Democrat Party at the time which was the blue collar worker middle class.


28 posted on 07/19/2024 10:06:48 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Red Badger

Good list, but misses the attempt on FDR when he was president elect and Truman while he was living in the Blair House while the white house was being renovated.


39 posted on 07/20/2024 6:53:35 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Red Badger; ansel12; Biblebelter; Vigilanteman; x
Vigilanteman to Red Badger: "Good list, but misses the attempt on FDR when he was president elect and Truman while he was living in the Blair House while the white house was being renovated."

Turns out, when you look into the question, since 1900 there have been 22 US presidents and of them, only four had no major attempts on their lives.

The four with no major attempts on their lives were:

  1. Woodrow Wilson -- Democrat
  2. Calvin Coolidge -- Republican
  3. Dwight Eisenhower -- Republican
  4. Lyndon Johnson -- Democrat
Since 1900, two Presidents were assassinated:
  1. McKinnley -- Republican
  2. Kennedy -- Democrat
Ten were shot, shot-at or an attempted shooting:
  1. Teddy Roosevelt -- shot in Buffalo, NY
  2. W. Howard Taft -- attempted shooting in Mexico
  3. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- shot at by gangster in Miami
  4. Harry Truman -- shot at by Puerto Rican at Blair House
  5. Richard Nixon -- attempted shooting in Canada
  6. Gerald Ford -- attempted shooting (by Charles Manson follower "Squeeky" Fromme) in Sacramento
  7. Jimmy Carter -- attempted shooting by John Hinkley, who later shot Ronald Reagan
  8. Ronald Reagan -- shot in Washington, DC
  9. Bill Clinton -- attempted shootings outside the White House
  10. Donald Trump -- shot in Butler, PA
Six others saw attempted attacks by other means:
  1. Warren Harding -- natural death or a suspected poisoning by wife in Alaska?
  2. Herbert Hoover -- bomb plot in Argentina
  3. George Bush Sr. -- bomb plot in Kuwait
  4. George Bush Jr. -- hand grenade in the country of Georgia
  5. Barak Obama -- several different attempts with knife, pipe bomb, "radiation gun", etc.
  6. Joe Biden -- attempted vehicle homicide at the White House
These are only the most noted assassination attempts.
42 posted on 07/21/2024 7:25:04 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: Red Badger

Yikes! My American history class never discussed the assassinations from that POV.


47 posted on 07/21/2024 2:19:57 PM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? Then you ain't smart.a)
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