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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (337204)	1/3/2003 3:41:28 PM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Reagan was also re elected in 1984, a pivotal year, a milestone year in American contemporary politics; Ronald Reagan achieved much but his electoral record of .3122% is a record that only a few realize the significance of.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (337204)	1/3/2003 3:55:27 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

GZ, Truman was elected in '48. Reagan remains the only President (except Bush who is still at risk) elected in a year ending in zero to not die in office since a certain Sioux medicine man put a curse on the office in the 1880s. 1900 Mckinley 1920 Harding 1940 Roosevelt 1960 Kennedy 1980 Reagan (His wound may well have been fatal a couple decades earlier.) Here's hoping that GW breaks the curse, maybe Ronnie already did by surviving. ggg Edit... Following the posts back I see the streak goes back further and the curse attributed to Tecumseh. There was also a Sioux in the 1880s who specified those elected in zero years though I can't remember his name and am too lazy to look for it. Either way, though I don't believe in curses, the coincidence is startling.