Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

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Mrs. Harding was obviously afraid of the Curse of Tippecanoe (sometimes called Tecumseh's Curse), the superstition that every President elected in a year evenly divisible by twenty would die in office. This held true from 1840 (William Henry Harrison - Old Tippecanoe who ticked off Tecumseh and died in office in 1841) through John F. Kennedy, elected in 1960.

Reagan was elected in 1980 and barely survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, and George W. Bush, elected in 2000, escaped assassination during a little-known incident while traveling in the former USSR State of Georgia. A grenade was thrown at him and the Prime Minister of Georgia, but failed to detonate. Bush did not learn of it until after the political rally was over.

Mrs. Harding's premonitions proved true. President Harding was elected in 1920 and died in 1923 of heart problems that brought on a stroke.