Current Events > Why do people forget about the assasination of President President McKinley?

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I just found out about it while reading down a wikipedia rabbit hole

And I realized I never knew he got killed. I always thought only 2 presidents were ever killed. Lincoln and JFK

It's weird to suddenly learn something like that

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Also Garfield

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Cliffnotes slice of history (as I remember it): McKinley was one of the first true corporate stooge presidents. Teddy Roosevelt was a popular anti-trust thorn in the Republican Party's paw, and they shuffled him off to the vice presidency where he could do as little damage to them as possible. Of course this deliciously backfired when McKinley was assassinated by someone severely disgruntled with his policies, and Teddy assumed the presidency.
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McKinley is interesting, because he took a long time to die. He appeared relatively okay in the immediate aftermath, exhorting both the crowd and the police not to harm his assailant, and assuring everyone he was fine. He received care for a few days and people thought he was recovering well, so well that Teddy Roosevelt left to go hunting in the Adirondacks, but McKinley's abdomen had become gangrenous and he suddenly took a fatal turn for the worse, and TR needed to be hunted down by a park ranger so he could be sworn in.

He was certainly a business Republican, the like of which had governed previously and would govern in throughout the '20s until 1932. Roosevelt and Taft were decidedly interventionist, but framed their actions as preserving the integrity of the market.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

McKinley is interesting, because he took a long time to die. He appeared relatively okay in the immediate aftermath, exhorting both the crowd and the police not to harm his assailant, and assuring everyone he was fine. He received care for a few days and people thought he was recovering well, so well that Teddy Roosevelt left to go hunting in the Adirondacks, but McKinley's abdomen had become gangrenous and he suddenly took a fatal turn for the worse, and TR needed to be hunted down by a park ranger so he could be sworn in.

He was certainly a business Republican, the like of which had governed previously and would govern in throughout the '20s until 1932. Roosevelt and Taft were decidedly interventionist, but framed their actions as preserving the integrity of the market.

On that note, Garfield survived something like three months from the time he was shot to the time he died due to infections of the wound.

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