The Chairman of the RNC at the time (Mark Hanna) seemed to realize this from the beginning, being quoted as saying:
>”Don’t any of you realize that there’s only one life between that madman and the Presidency?”
I remember in the T.R. documentary, one of the talking heads said that he “carried McKinely’s policies the way people ‘carry out’ the garbage”.
biglyorbigleague on
Did they consider the Curse of Tippecanoe when they nominated Dick Cheney
Surprised I haven’t seen one of these memes about Dick Cheney, actually
zosimus_tarkas_vt on
The bullet that ended the Gilded Age
GustavoistSoldier on
To be fair, the pattern of every US president elected every 20 years dying in office was not noticed until 1940.
Shipping_Architect on
If you look hard enough, you can find coincidences in any topic that a superstitious person would think are intentional.
SilentTempestLord on
Sometimes I wonder if it was divine intervention because that one assassination unironically became one of the best things that ever happened to America. Roosevelt is one of the greatest presidents we ever had, and I don’t know a modern day president who tops him.
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The Chairman of the RNC at the time (Mark Hanna) seemed to realize this from the beginning, being quoted as saying:
>”Don’t any of you realize that there’s only one life between that madman and the Presidency?”
I remember in the T.R. documentary, one of the talking heads said that he “carried McKinely’s policies the way people ‘carry out’ the garbage”.
Did they consider the Curse of Tippecanoe when they nominated Dick Cheney
Surprised I haven’t seen one of these memes about Dick Cheney, actually
The bullet that ended the Gilded Age
To be fair, the pattern of every US president elected every 20 years dying in office was not noticed until 1940.
If you look hard enough, you can find coincidences in any topic that a superstitious person would think are intentional.
Sometimes I wonder if it was divine intervention because that one assassination unironically became one of the best things that ever happened to America. Roosevelt is one of the greatest presidents we ever had, and I don’t know a modern day president who tops him.