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  • Honey, I forgot to duck.

    - (William Harrison) Jack Dempsey
      Attributed, to his wife after he was knocked out by Gene Tunney. US President Ronald Reagan repeated the phrase to his wife when wounded in an attempted assassination,1981.

  • Honey, I forgot to duck. See Dempsey 261:86.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
    Said to his wife, Nancy, after being shot byJohn R Hinckley, Jr, 30 Mar.

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