At last I think I understand the reason for Mr. Bush's security obsession !
It's called "the curse of the White House", and it goes like this:-
Beginning with the election of William Harrison in 1840, who died of pneumonia in 1841, all presidents elected in zero years died in office: Abraham Lincoln: elected 1860, assassinated 1865; James Garfield: elected 1880, assassinated 1881; William McKinley: elected 1900, assassinated 1901; Warren Harding: elected 1920, died from food poisoning 1923; Franklin Delano Roosevelt: re-elected 1940, died of a stroke 1945; John Kennedy: elected 1960, assassinated 1963.
Obviously, the curse has expired by 1980... :)
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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