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One of the most well known 'curses' (although still not as well known as the Curse of the Bambino) is the Presidential curse that every president elected on a 20 year schedule starting with 1840 and William Henry Harrison has died in office through both natural and 'man made' causes.

IMO the easiest of these deaths to butterfly is Ronald Regan's on March 30 1981 since Hinckley only hit him with a ricochet through bad luck, that ricochet then having the monumentally bad luck of piercing Regan's heart, one inch one way or another and the president possibly has a chance of making it to the hospital before bleeding out, or not getting hit at all.

Regan was quite conservative, both fiscally and socially, and probably would be a major contrast to Bush's 8 years of the 'steady hand of moderate governance' (aka the blandocracy).

Of course the second easiest to butterfly is President Elect Dick Gephardt's plane surviving or avoiding the flock of geese on December 7, 2000 and probably averting the disaster that was the James McGreevy presidency...
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