26 REDS & A BOTTLE OF WINE

On this day in 1981 mental case and Jody Foster enthusiast John Hinckley Jr. showed President and jellybean portrait muse Ronald Reagan six bullets from the business end of a Rohm RG-14. Ronny never really got a good look but Press Sec. James Brady did. The President did catch a ricochet in the lung but reportedly wasn't sure he had been shot beause of all the pain he was in from being crashed by his security detail.

This may have been the worst attempt to get laid in human history but it did get his name out there and you have to be in it to win it as far as the ladies go. Any of you fine ladies looking for love and reach Johnny at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in D.C.

Hinkley went to Highland Park High School is Dallas Texas. I lived near Highland Park, none of this surprises me.

On another note. By, you know, not dying Reagan became the first President elected on a year devisible by 20 to not die in office in 140 years.

1840 - William Henry Harrison, died of pneumonia in 1841
1860 - Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865
1880 - James Garfield, assassinated in 1881
1900 - William McKinley, assassinated in 1901
1920 - Warren G. Harding, died of heart attack in 1923
1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1945
1960 - John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963

Zachary Taylor was the only other President to die in office. He was elected in 1848 and died in 1850 of indigestion.

So Reagan was the first and George W. Bush, elected in 2000 is the second. But of course G.W.B. didn't win the popular vote so maybe he doesn't count. His term doesn't end until January 20, 2009.