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honey, I forgot to duck. President Ronald Reagan’s words to his wife, Nancy, after would-be assassin John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot him with a handgun in March 1981, just 70 days into his first term. This has to be the presidential assassination at- tempt with the most remarkable bon mots. Mr. Reagan joked, “Who’s minding the store?” to his top aides as he was wheeled into surgery. Nancy Reagan leaned over the gurney and told the president, “I brought your jelly beans, darling,” holding onto a jar of her husband’s favorite candy. Later, she dropped the jelly beans when during a news conference Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., presumptuously announced, “I am in control, here at the White House.” See haigspeak. |