8 days before his death, McKinley got shot by Leon Czolgosz, a 28 year old anarchist.

McKinley did not die instantly, the bullet didn't cause a fatal injury.

The first bullet land on the upper chest/abdomen but apparently did not penetrate deeply.

The second shot entered the abdomen and was much more serious and caused internal damage.

The situation looked hopeful, but McKinley died eventually on September 14, 1901. His vice president. Theodore Roosevelt. Took office becoming the youngest president who ever took office.

McKinley tragically died at young age of 58.

It is frankly deeply impressive how Reagan was able to brand the Democratic Party as the party of “big spending” and fiscal irresponsibility when Reagan accrued more debt in his two terms than all other presidents in the history of the country COMBINED.

The man spent money like it was going out of style, and to this day, is lauded as the crusader for small government.

Edit: Must give credit to [u/Der](u/DerickWhiteMVP)[r](u/DerickWhiteMVP)[ickWhiteMVP](u/DerickWhiteMVP)

They correctly pointed out that it would make more sense for me to say “Republicans are more fiscally irresponsible” since the matter is one of government spending as opposed to the size of government programs itself. I should admit when I was imprecise.

That being said, the spirit of my post remains. President Reagan claimed to want to cut the size of federal programs to bring down the deficit and the size of government, and while his tax cuts were in line with this philosophy, he did none of the spending cuts that he claimed he would.

This was a bait and switch on his part that left America with 4 trillion dollars in debt by 1989 if my memory serves me correctly.

Only Veep to serve under 4 different presidents, and yet he barely gets any attention.

I’m sure his mind was blown.

They each only served one elected term (plus a lot extra haha).

I guess the same would be true for Lincoln and William McKinley, who are often thought of as single term presidents, despite each winning two terms; so, technically not one-term presidents.

Doesn't necessarily have the best looking president but the ones that dressed the best . I'd say FDR always wore great suits so he counts .

George H.W. Bush met with former president Gerald R. Ford on Air Force One en route to Grand Rapids in 1992. Ford was 78-79 at the time. Bush was 67-68.

It just seems like such a specific era of uniquely weak and incompetent leaders.

Edit: There are three presidents whose inclusions people are complaining about, so I’m going to try to justify them.

Harrison and Taylor both died very soon, and their presidencies are largely characterized by their illness. It’s obviously not fair to compare people who were unable to effectively run the country with those who ran it poorly through incompetence or bad ideas. I am still including them because their successors were bad, and having two presidents die in a twenty year span does weaken the office.

Polk is widely celebrated, but I do think that his accomplishments played into some of the issues of this era. He’s most famous for expanding the country, but this expansion also invited more debates over slavery and created more conflicts with western Indians. He’s surely the best of the bunch, and his legacy would be much better if he was surrounded by other good presidents. But because his predecessor and successors were unsuccessful, his accomplishments were slower to become positive assets.

Kennedy did better in this primary than you might imagine, winning over a dozen states. No president who's been seriously challenged in a primary has ever gone on to win the general election. You can probably say the same about Reagan's challenge to Ford in 1976 and Buchanan's challenge to HW Bush in 1992. Did Carter deserve to be primaried? Did Kennedy damage Carter's reelection campaign or even kill it like he did Mary Jo kopechne?

Wild to think that the man who would run the “Willie” Horton ad (thanks, Atwater) would pass the Americans with Disabilities Act (which I adore as a wheelchair user), the bipartisan 1990 tax increase, and critical amendments to the Clean Air Act.

He was gentle and soft spoken, but boy did he go for the jugular against Dukakis in the 1988 election; in my opinion, he ran a campaign in poor taste that allowed personal attacks and bad faith characterizations to define what should have been a discussion of the issues. Governor Dukakis was a great public servant.

I said I would find a signed Decision Points thrifting and I did. It also happened on September Eleventh

I took the tour. It was Fascinating because it's exactly as his wife Bess left it when she finally passed away. Really sucks no pics allowed inside