The Reflection Of President Garfield's Assassination Vacation

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The second section of Assassination Vacation, is dedicated to the assassination of President Garfield. Garfield’s death was quite different from Lincoln’s, after his July second shooting Garfield lived for two and a half months before blood poisoning killed him on September 19th. During this time, Garfield remained in a vegetative state, but to the public it was a popular subject. Citizens constantly checked newspapers for updates about the president’s condition, which Vowell compares to that of modern day societies reaction to the NBA Finals or the Academy Awards ceremony. During Vowell’s tour of Garfield’s home she examines the library, where Garfield being an avid reader spent lots of time. She points out that his library contains eleven of twelve volumes of The Works of Charles Sumner, the twelfth volume was published after Garfield’s death. This collection was published by Charles Sumner, another passionate reader on Capitol Hill and a Massachusetts senator that was the complete opposite of what Garfield was in …show more content…

McKinley was reluctant to go to war at first, but eventually decided it was in the countries best interest and referenced that God guided him into making this decision. The reference of God’s guidance still occurs in today’s society as well, for instance President Bush in 2003 stated, “I believe God wants me to run for president.” The war with Cuba is extremely comparable to that of the modern day war with Iraq, in which our purpose was to disarm mass destruction weapons that haven’t been found, just as there was no evidence of the misconduct that occurred with the destruction of the Maine. Despite our occupancy of Cuba for five years after a treaty was signed with Spain in 1898, Cuba remains not free

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