| Last words | President | % Correct |
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| "Thomas Jefferson survives." | John Adams | 84%
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| "I have a terrific headache." | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 44%
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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." | Herbert Hoover | 38%
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| " 'Tis Well." | George Washington | 35%
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| "I know I am going where Lucy is." | Rutherford B. Hayes | 33%
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| "Are the doctors here? Doctor, my lungs..." | Benjamin Harrison | 32%
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| "No, you certainly can't." | John F. Kennedy | 31%
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| "She won't think anything about it." | Abraham Lincoln | 28%
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| "Swaim, can't you stop the pain?" | James A. Garfield | 28%
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| "I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you." | James K. Polk | 27%
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| "Water." | Ulysses S. Grant | 27%
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| "I love you too." | George H. W. Bush | 26%
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| "Help." | Richard Nixon | 26%
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| "Please put out the light." | Theodore Roosevelt | 26%
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| "I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him." | James Monroe | 22%
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| "Send Mike immediately." | Lyndon B. Johnson | 22%
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| "Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear." | James Madison | 20%
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| "No, doctor, nothing more" | Thomas Jefferson | 20%
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| "I understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." | William Henry Harrison | 20%
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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." | Andrew Jackson | 19%
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| "This is the last of earth. I am content." | John Quincy Adams | 19%
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| "My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles." | Andrew Johnson | 15%
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| "Good morning, Robert." | Calvin Coolidge | 15%
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| "I want to go. God take me." | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 15%
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| "The nourishment is palatable." | Millard Fillmore | 15%
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| "That’s good. Go on, read some more." | Warren G. Harding | 15%
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| "When the machinery is broken... I am ready." | Woodrow Wilson | 15%
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| "I regret nothing, but I am sorry to leave my friends." | Zachary Taylor | 15%
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| "I have tried so hard to do right." | Grover Cleveland | 14%
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| "Oh, Lord God Almighty, as thou wilt!" | James Buchanan | 14%
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| "Goodbye, all, goodbye. It is God’s way. His will be done." | William McKinley | 14%
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| "Perhaps it is best." | John Tyler | 13%
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| "There is but one reliance." | Martin Van Buren | 12%
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| "Life is not worth living." | Chester A. Arthur | 9%
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