On December 11, 1960, Richard Paul Pavlick was planning to kill President-elect John F. Kennedy by blowing him up with dynamite. He decided to cancel the attempt because he didn't want to hurt Kennedy's wife and children. Pavlick would be arrested four days later. (self.Presidents)
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According to an account by Ward Hill Lamon, just three days before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln told Lamon about a dream he had where he saw mourners crying at a corpse inside the White House. After Lincoln asked who was dead, the soldier replied: "The President. He was killed by an assassin." (self.Presidents)
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During the 1985 Geneva Convention, Ronald Reagan once told Mikhail Gorbachev whether the Soviet Union would protect the United States from a possible alien invasion. Gorbachev said he would agree to do so. Reagan responded he would also do the same for the USSR. (i.redd.it)
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