Word: czolgosz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner of his death was typical of his gentle nature. After he was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., his first thought was of his wife: "Be careful how you tell her." He died eight days later, whispering to his wife: "Nearer, my God, to thee." It was Sept. 14, 1901; McKinley was leaving a violent century that he could not have understood, and that could not be very kind to him in retrospect. At the time, his mourners did not recall his failures but remembered his "firm, unquestioning faith...
...President. "Don't any of you realize," said the G.O.P. Old Guard national chairman, Ohio's Mark Hanna, in private, "that there's only one life between this madman and the White House?" In the fateful September of 1901, when McKinley was shot by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Buffalo, word swept the nation that Boss Hanna had devised a new phrase: "That damned cowboy is in the White House...