2000 - a bad year to be elected? You decide....

[Dee67]

What happens when a president gets elected in years ending with zero (which of course happens only every 20 years)?

1840: William Henry Harrison (Died in Office)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Assassinated)
1880: James A. Garfield (Assassinated)
1900: William McKinley (Assassinated)
1920: Warren G. Harding (Died in Office)
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Died in Office)
1960: John F. Kennedy (Assassinated)
1980: Ronald Reagan (Barely Survived Assassination
Attempt and left suffering from Alzheimer's)

2000: ??????????


Care to answer a config.sys question for me??? Thx

 

[Valhalla1]

i've been talking about this in the election threads already. would suck if some liberal tree hugging hippie shot bush, then cheney died in office of a heart attack. :Q

 

[beer]

Whoa. That's almost as freaky as the whole Lincoln/Kennedy and Kennedy/Lincoln relationship there.

 

[Pretender]

fails to mention 1820, 1800, 1780. Interesting coincedences, nonetheless.

 

[SexEPid]

2000: George W. Bush(OD's on cocaine)

Pid, TYRP

 

[Pretender]

2020: Sex E Pid (his parents wake up from a nightmare and are relieved he doesn't exist :Q)

 

[SexEPid]

But, how could I be president then?

Pid, TYRP

 

[Wolfie]

I thought James A. Garfield was the one that died a week into office after walking home in a rain storm and got deathly sick???

[edit]Opps, It was William Henry Harrison that died from getting sick. My bad.[/edit]

Wolfie

 

[konichiwa]

That's what they WANT you to think.

/me looks over my shoulder

 

[Zorba]

<< fails to mention 1820, 1800, 1780. Interesting coincedences, nonetheless. >>



The first president was elected in 1788

 

[Prodigy^]

Pretender: Maybe there weren't any presidents elected those years?

 

[Pretender]

<< The first president was elected in 1788 >>

I forgot my american history from last year, and was thinking 1776 for some brainless reason. Still leaves 1800 and 1820.

 

[Zorba]

Pretender: I know, I just had to be a jackass

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

The Man With the Golden Gun has something for you.

 

[AndrewR]

1800 was Jefferson. 1820 was Monroe.

William Henry Harrison died after contracting pneumonia from his extraordinarily long-winded inauguration speech given in freezing temperatures with a driving rain.

I'd say the assassination attempt and the Alzheimer's for Reagan had nothing to do with each other.

 

[Pretender]

<< William Henry Harrison died after contracting pneumonia from his extraordinarily long-winded inauguration speech given in freezing temperatures with a driving rain. >>

That shouldn't be a problem for Bush, he's not one of those extremely talkative types.

 

[shifrbv]

The curse wasn't supposed to begin until 1840 according to Tenskwatawa, (also known as &quot;The Prophet&quot, a Shawnee medicine man who was half-brother to Tecumseh. The hex was supposedly his revenge for the death of his half-brother.

&quot;Harrison will die I tell you,&quot; the Prophet reportedly said. &quot;And after him, every Great Chief chosen every 20 years thereafter will die. And when each one dies, let everyone remember the death of my people.&quot;

Another spin might be:

&quot;The key to all this presidential demising possibly lies more within the realm of the stars than the rumored words of a dead Indian chief. Or at least so the astrologers would have us believe. According to Mark Dodich, an astrologer who has attempted to analyze the Curse of Tecumseh, the reason behind this force is one of &quot;cosmic coincidence,&quot; not native American hexing. Dodich claims the curse's effects overlap with the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, whose orbits have lined up every twenty years.

The 20-year pattern's one failure -- Reagan -- is explained by the sign the alignment of these two planets occurred under. Alignments under the earth signs (Taurus, Capricorn, and Virgo) have led to dead Presidents, but Reagan's term occurred under an air sign, accounting for his survival.

According to Dodich, year 2000's Jupiter-Saturn twinning once again occurs under the earth sign of Taurus, a phenomenon he says won't happen again for another 600 years. It thus marks the end of a deadly cycle. And if Dodich is right about this curse thing, it will sound the death knell for another President.&quot;