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Last words
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President
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"Are the doctors here? Doctor, my lungs..."
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Benjamin Harrison
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"I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him."
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James Monroe
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"Help."
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Richard Nixon
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"Swaim, can't you stop the pain?"
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James A. Garfield
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"I understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."
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William Henry Harrison
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"Oh, Lord God Almighty, as thou wilt!"
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James Buchanan
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"Goodbye, all, goodbye. It is God’s way. His will be done."
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William McKinley
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"The nourishment is palatable."
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Millard Fillmore
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"No, doctor, nothing more"
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Thomas Jefferson
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"Please put out the light."
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Theodore Roosevelt
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"My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles."
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Andrew Johnson
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"There is but one reliance."
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Martin Van Buren
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"This is the last of earth. I am content."
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John Quincy Adams
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"Send Mike immediately."
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I know I am going where Lucy is."
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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"No, you certainly can't."
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John F. Kennedy
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"I have tried so hard to do right."
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Grover Cleveland
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"I love you too."
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George H. W. Bush
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"I regret nothing, but I am sorry to leave my friends."
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Zachary Taylor
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"Life is not worth living."
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Chester A. Arthur
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"I have a terrific headache."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"I hope to meet each of you in heaven. Be good, children, all of you, and strive to be ready when the change comes."
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Andrew Jackson
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"Good morning, Robert."
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Calvin Coolidge
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"I want to go. God take me."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"She won't think anything about it."
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Abraham Lincoln
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"That’s good. Go on, read some more."
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Warren G. Harding
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"Water."
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Ulysses S. Grant
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"I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you."
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James K. Polk
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"When the machinery is broken... I am ready."
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Woodrow Wilson
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" 'Tis Well."
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George Washington
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"Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear."
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James Madison
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"Thomas Jefferson survives."
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John Adams
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"Perhaps it is best."
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John Tyler
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"Bathtubs are a menace to ex-presidents for as you may recall a bathtub rose up and fractured my vertebrae when I was in Venezuela on your world famine mission in 1946. My warmest sympathy and best wishes for your speedy recovery."
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Herbert Hoover
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