Anybody remember what they were doing and where they were when the news broke that Reagan was shot?

[Michele 1]

At home sick with the flu. I was in 10th grade (I think...), and my Mom wasn't home. I remember yelling out the window to the neighbor who was mowing his lawn that the president had been shot. My neighbor flew into his house. I was pretty scared...no one home, and all my friends at school...and I had no idea what was going to happen. It was pretty weird. I was aware of politics at the time (in my household, you were aware of them as soon as you were born...), but I wasn't strong in any one philosophy. But I do remember being very, very scared of Al Haig for some reason; his face and demeanor bothered me.

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[Amazon 7]

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But I do remember being very, very scared of Al Haig for some reason; his face and demeanor bothered me.

He told us not to worry he was in charge

Considering how far down the list he was.. that was scary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Haig

"I'm in control here"
In 1981, after the March 30 assassination attempt on Reagan, Haig asserted before reporters that "I'm in control here" as a result of Reagan's hospitalization. The quotation became seen as an attempt by Haig to exceed his authority. The full quotation is:

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

Haig is usually perceived as incorrect in his interpretation of the United States Constitution as far as both the presidential line of succession is concerned and in regard to the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution which deals with what happens when a president is incapacitated. However, as the holders of the two offices between the Vice President and the Secretary of State, the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore, are required under U.S. law (3 U.S.C. 19) to resign their positions in order to become acting President, an unlikely event considering that Vice President Bush was merely not immediately available, his statement certainly reflected political reality, if not necessarily legal reality. However, audio tapes made that day in the White House by National Security Advisor Richard Allen, and released in 2001, suggest that Haig was indeed under the erroneous impression that the U.S. Constitution placed him after the Vice President of the United States in the Presidential Line of Succession.

Haig later said:

"I wasn’t talking about transition. I was talking about the executive branch, who is running the government. That was the question asked. It was not, ‘who is in line should the President die?’

[billeisele 130]

i was working in the Galapagos Islands

saw a Time magazine in the mail 2 weeks after it happened, it takes about 2 for mail to get there, never heard a word of it from anyone the whole time

just goes to show you that the world does not revolve around what happens in the US

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.

[Randy_H 0]

I was in 5th grade and over at a friends house playing baseball on the Atari 2600.

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