Bill Clinton set a record for the most trips abroad: George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President, lost the popular vote to Al Gore in Bush is the fourth President to attain the highest office in the U. Hayes , and Benjamin Harrison. James Monroe , the fifth President, received every Electoral College vote except one.
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In Clinton was impeached by the U. House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate. Andrew Johnson was impeached by the U. House of Representatives in , but he was also later acquitted by the Senate. Bush is the second President to follow in the footsteps of his father.
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Hinckley claimed to have carried out the attack to impress actress Jodie Foster, whom he was stalking. He was institutionalized and released in , after being deemed to no longer pose a threat to others. President Bill Clinton was the subject of several assassination plots during his stint in the White House.
Three alone occurred in Later that year, Frank Eugene Corder rammed a red and white single-engine airplane onto the White House lawn, in an attempt to kill Clinton, according to the New York Times.
Corder died when the vehicle "crashed through the branches of a magnolia tree planted by Andrew Jackson and came to rest in a crumpled heap two stories below the Clintons' unoccupied bedroom. A month later in October, Francisco Martin Duran slipped a suicide note into his pocket and fired numerous shots at the north lawn, according to the Los Angeles Times. A group of tourists ultimately tackled Duran and he was arrested.
An assassination attempt later took place abroad, during Clinton's visit to Manila in A bomb was discovered under a bridge that the president's motorcade was scheduled to travel over.
The bomb plot was apparently masterminded by Osama bin Laden, according to the Telegraph. President George W. Bush was exercising in the residential area of the White House at the time. Pickett was treated in a Bureau of Prisons psychological institution for two years following the incident. During the event, Georgian national Vladimir Arutyunian tied a red handkerchief around a live hand grenade and threw it at the presidents and other officials, according to the Washington Post.
However, the explosive didn't detonate. The handkerchief had blocked the grenade's safety lever. Arutyunian escaped from the rally, and later killed a Georgian agent during his arrest. He was sentenced to life in prison for the assassination attempt.
While Barack Obama was still a presidential candidate in , two white supremacists named Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart conspired to murder African American men — while driving around in a getaway car with the words "Honk if you love Hitler" scrawled on it. Their conspiracy would culminate with the assassination of Obama.
As CBS News reported , police uncovered the detailed plot and arrested the duo long before they were close to launching their cross-country murder spree. He crashed his car while escaping, and was later arrested and sentenced to The Obamas were not in the White House at the time of the shooting.
In April , a letter addressed to Obama tested positive for ricin , a deadly poison. James Everett Dutschke was sentenced to 25 years in jail for the ricin mailing plot, according to Politico. At a campaign rally in a Las Vegas strip hotel casino , Michael Steven Sandford attempted to grab a police officer's gun. As he was taken into custody, the British national told officers that he was hoping to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. The Guardian reported that Sandford has a history of mental illness, which Judge James Mahan acknowledged in his hearing, saying that Sandford needed help and wasn't a "hardened criminal" — or even intent on assassinating Trump.
John Hinckley Jr. Reagan recovered from a chest wound, but his press secretary, James Brady, was partially paralyzed by a bullet in the head.
George H. Bush April 14, As Bush prepared for an appearance at Kuwait University, a car carrying explosives was reportedly smuggled across the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border, part of an assassination plot allegedly cooked up by Saddam Hussein. The car bomb was found and sixteen suspected terrorists were apprehended by Kuwaiti officials.
Bill Clinton October 29, While Clinton sat watching football in the White House, Francisco Martin Duran, a former hotel upholsterer, fired a machine gun at "men in dark suits" standing on the back lawn, hoping one of them was the president.
Duran was tackled by tourists. In the immediate vicinity of the President were four Buffalo detectives, four soldiers, and three Secret Service agents. Two of the Secret Service men were facing the President at a distance of 3 feet. One of them stated later that it was normally his custom to stand at the side of the President on such occasions, but that he had been requested not to do so at this time in order to permit McKinley's secretary and the president of the exposition to stand on either side of McKinley.
Czolgosz joined the line concealed a pistol under a handkerchief, and when he stood in front of the President shot twice through the handkerchief. McKinley fell critically wounded. There is evidence that the organized anarchists in the U. He was not admitted as a member to any of the secret anarchist societies. No co-plotters were ever discovered, and there is no evidence that he had confided in anyone.
A calm inquiry made by two eminent alienists about a year after Czolgosz was executed found that Czolgosz had for some time been suffering from delusions. One was that he was an anarchist; another was that it was his duty to assassinate the President. In his written confession he included the words, "I don't believe one man should have so much service and another man should have none. I am not sorry for my crime. Czolgosz, who had been captured immediately, was swiftly tried, convicted, and condemned to death.
Although it seemed to some contemporaries that Czolgosz was incompetent, the defense made no effort to plead insanity. Czolgosz was executed 45 days after the President's death. Investigations by the Buffalo police and the Secret Service revealed no accomplices and no plot of any kind.
The first congressional session after the assassination of McKinley gave more attention to legislation concerning attacks on the President than had any previous Congress but did not pass any measures for the protection of the President. Protection of the President now became one of its major permanent functions, and it assigned two men to its original full-time White House detail. Additional agents were provided when the President traveled or went on vacation.
In a letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in , from his summer home, he wrote: Page The Secret Service men are a very small but very necessary thorn in the flesh. Of course, they would not be the least use preventing any assault upon my life. I do not believe there is any danger of such an assault, and if there were, as Lincoln said, "though it would be safer for a President to live in a cage, it would interfere with his business.
During the Presidential campaign of , just as he was about to make a political speech in Milwaukee on October 14, he was shot and wounded in the breast by John N. Schrank, a year-old German-born ex-tavern keeper. A folded manuscript of his long speech and the metal case for his eyeglasses in the breast pocket of Roosevelt's coat were all that prevented the assassination.
In this vision the ghost of McKinley appeared to him and told him not to let a murderer i. It was then that he determined upon the assassination. At the bidding of McKinley's ghost, he felt he had no choice but to kill Theodore Roosevelt. After his attempt on Roosevelt, Schrank was found to be insane and was committed to mental hospitals in Wisconsin for the rest of his life.
Although the Secret Service undertook to provide full-time protection for the President beginning in , it received neither funds for the purpose nor sanction from the Congress until when the Sundry Civil Expenses Act for included funds for protection of the President by the Secret Service.
This practice received statutory authorization in , and in the same year, Congress authorized permanent protection of the President. As in the Civil and Spanish-American Wars, the coming of war in caused increased concern for the safety of the President. Congress enacted a law, since referred to as the threat statute, making it a crime to threaten the President by mail or in any other manner.
In , for the first time in history, a President traveled outside the United States while in office. When Theodore Roosevelt visited Panama in that year, he was accompanied and protected by Secret Service men. Roosevelt in further demonstrated the broad scope and complexity of the protection problems facing the Secret Service. Giuseppe Zangara was a bricklayer and stonemason with a professed hatred of capitalists and Presidents. He seemed to be obsessed with the desire to kill a President.
After his arrest he confessed that he had first planned to go to Washington to kill President Herbert Hoover, but as the cold climate of the North was bad for his stomach trouble, he was loath to leave Miami, where he was staying. When he read in the paper that President-elect Roosevelt would be in Miami, he resolved to kill him.
Fortunately for him, however, he slid down into the seat just before Zangara could get near enough to take aim. The assassin's arm may have been jogged just as he shot; the five rounds he directed at Roosevelt went awry. However, he mortally wounded Mayor Anton Cermak, of Chicago, and hit four other persons; the President-elect, by a miracle, escaped.
Zangara, of course, never had any chance of escaping. No evidence of accomplices or conspiracy came to light, but there was some sensational newspaper speculation, wholly undocumented, that Zangara may have been hired by Chicago gangsters to kill Cermak.
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