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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:16 AM
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Which Presidents were smoked?
I know that every US President elected in a year ending in 0 except Reagan died in office (some of natural causes). Reagan WAS smoked but survived. And Ford (a non-0 one) was, too.

So, what presidets found themnselves at the undesirable end of a firearm bullet? Off the top of my head, I can only remember Reagan, Ford, JFK, and Lincoln. And the one who was replaced by Teddy Roosevelt (I forget his name).
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:17 AM
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1. Garfield? McKinley?
I believe....????

Don't quote me. :)
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:18 AM
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2. Lincoln, Kennedy
Wm. Henry Harrison got smoked because he refused to wear a coat to his inauguration, died like a month later.
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:22 AM
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4. Yes, Garfield and McKinley
Garfield lived for almost two months after being shot but died from his wounds.
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 10:30 PM
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11. Garfield definetly
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:21 AM
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3. Nixon was literally smoked.
He was the first President to be cremated, IIRC.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:47 AM
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8. Oh, that was tasteless.
And therefore I like it. :evilgrin:
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:23 AM
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5. The list of Presidents who died in office
Edited on Mon Jul-12-04 09:25 AM by zulchzulu
Here's the list:

William Henry Harrison, April 4, 1841

Zachary Taylor, July 9, 1850

Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865 - assassinated

James Abram Garfield, September 19, 1881 - assassinated

William McKinley, Jr., September 14, 1901 - assassinated

Warren Gamaliel Harding, August 2, 1923 - assassinated? (maybe)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, April 12, 1945

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, November 22, 1963 - assassinated

Ronald Wilson Reagan - shot but survived


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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:26 AM
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7. I hear Harrison was a fat bastard.
Which brings me to my next question: is it legal to call a dead president a fat bastard? You gotta watch it with Agent Mike around.
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 11:04 AM
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9. You might be thinking of William Taft
Now he was a fat bastard.

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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 10:27 PM
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10. Oh, don't even get me STARTED on THAT guy.
Harrison may have been a fat bastard, but Taft was a fucking PIG of a man...

Now...is that legal? Can I say that?
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:24 AM
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6. Let's see here...
Edited on Mon Jul-12-04 09:26 AM by elperromagico
Jackson - Assassination attempt
Lincoln - Assassinated
Garfield - Assassinated
McKinley - Assassinated
TR - Assassination attempt during 1912 campaign for President
FDR - Assassination attempt while President-Elect (the bullet hit and killed the mayor of Chicago)
Truman - Assassination attempt
Kennedy - Assassinated
Ford - Two assassination attempts
Reagan - Assassination attempt
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 10:31 PM
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12. Clinton- two assassination attempts
Edited on Mon Jul-12-04 10:33 PM by WannaJumpMyScooter
the USSS calls the plane which crashed into the white house "a likely assassination attempt"

and then there was the one by the GOP called Whitewater.


I think you have your Roosevelts mixed up, the Mayor of Chicago was killed when TR was wounded. He appeared in Buffalo the next day and said "It takes more than a little led to stop a bull moose!" he lost the election anyway.
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No2W2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 10:36 PM
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14. It was Mayor Anton Cermak that was killed
Edited on Mon Jul-12-04 10:37 PM by No2W2004
while sitting next to FDR in an open car during an election-year parade in Florida. Speculation is that Cermak was the actual target all along.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 10:37 PM
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15. You are right. I was the one confused. I had to look it up
Sorry.
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No2W2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 10:39 PM
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16. Why Sorry?

Just one of the fun facts that are clogging up my brain tissue that could probably be put to better use. :)
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FDRrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 10:32 PM
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13. Franklin Roosevelt
Edited on Mon Jul-12-04 10:32 PM by FDRrocks
Well, he was on the undesirable end of a firearm, but the bullets hit the guy sitting next to him.

WHEW!
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carpetbagger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 11:11 PM
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17. Presidents who came pre-smoked.
Monroe, Jackson, and Kennedy came pre-smoked. If pig-in-a-blanket can be presmoked, add Bush I and his fighter plane.
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