[lace-chat] The Curse of the White House

2004-01-24 Thread Linda Walton 
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.

Looking on with renewed interest,
yours sincerely,
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.,
where it's just dawned clear and cold,
a severe cold snap and blizzards are forecast for next week,
and we've just found a mysterious leak in the bathroom . . .).

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Re: [lace-chat] The Curse of the White House

2004-01-24 Thread Tamara P. Duvall 
On Jan 24, 2004, at 3:16, Linda Walton wrote:

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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