Roosevelt did survive an assasination attempt-albeit after his term in office- and Regan survived an attempt also.
I feel that the British have absolutely NO grounds for being critical of our form of government. They had a perfectly good, workable, monarchy and took power away from the King and gave it to the commoners!
Well I mean, REALLY!
Frankly, politics has not been worth the bother since. What we all need is the restoration of a good, sensible aristocracy to sort things out and keep things running correctly.
There's altogether too much laxity and slackness these days. A good start would be a return to flogging.

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