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President Reagan

2006-12-12 17:33:52 · 4 answers · asked by Random Man 1 in Education & Reference Quotations

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On March 30, 1981, Reagan, his press secretary James Brady, and two others were struck by gunfire from a deranged would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr.. Missing Reagan’s heart by less than one inch, the bullet instead pierced his left lung, which likely spared his life. Reagan joked to the surgeons, "I hope you're all Republicans" (though they were not, Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today").[26] Reagan later famously told his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck" (borrowing Jack Dempsey's line to his wife the night he was beaten by Gene Tunney for the heavyweight championship). Reagan had been scheduled to visit the City of Brotherly Love on the day of the shooting. He quipped to a nurse, "All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia," referring to the W.C. Fields' tagline (which was itself a reference to an old vaudeville joke among comedians: "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia") [11].


Reagan died of pneumonia on June 5, 2004 at 1:09 PM PDT at his home in Bel-Air, California. After a major state funeral in Washington that drew leaders from around the world, he was buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The state funeral was presided over by President George W. Bush, whose father was vice-president under Reagan and followed Reagan to the White House.

2006-12-12 20:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

NO, John Warnock Hinckley shot President Reagan, not Robert Hinkley. Robert Hinkley is a former Corporations Security Attorney who designed the Code for Corporation Responsibility in which he talks about Corporations being responsible not only to their stockholders but also to Society in General and particularly to the environment. Read here: http://www.law.seattleu.edu/ccls/events/hinkley to get more information about him.

2006-12-12 20:48:39 · answer #2 · answered by Sicilian Godmother 7 · 0 1

He is the man who shot President Reagan back in 1981.

Good Luck!!!

2006-12-12 17:35:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

he shot reagan

2006-12-12 17:36:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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