“Ronald Reagan’s legend began after he was shot. With his doctors soon to operate, he quipped, ‘I hope you’re all Republicans.’ He told his wife, ‘Honey, I forgot to duck.’ The coolness reinforced his image as America’s new leading man,” writes David Paul Kuhn, who served as a political writer for CBS News and Politico, among other news sources.
Reagan's handling of assassination effort resembled Trump's
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