Nutty Facts – President Reagan after being shot tells Nancy: “Honey, I forgot to duck”

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TweetGeorge Washington University Hospital 1981 - The news media reported that President Reagan was awake and alert when he was wheeled into the emergency room at George Washington University Hospital - so awake and alert that he was said to have looked up at the doctors and nurses and said, “I hope you’re all Republicans.”

He told a nurse upon regaining consciousness who happened to be holding the president’s hand. “Does Nancy know about us?” he quipped.

When Nancy, his wife, arrived a few minutes later, Reagan greeted her with the comment, “Honey, I forgot to duck.” (He was quoting prizefighter Jack Dempsey, who had said the same thing to his own wife after losing the heavyweight championship to rival Gene Tunney in 1926.)

Reagan even found occasion to pay homage to W.C. Fields. When a nurse asked him how he was feeling, he responded, “All in all, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.” (The original line, which Fields had proposed for his own epitaph, was: “On the whole, I would rather be in Philadelphia.”)

And, according to Edwin Meese, Reagan’s Attorney General, the President stumped him and other members of the White House staff with the greeting, “Who’s minding the store?”

[MrzDiva]

TweetA president with a sense of humor. Awsome lol.