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Peggy the chimpanzee tried to take him out in the 50s, but alas.
No but seriously: there was an attempt to kill him, wasn't there?
Yup.
yes, John Hinckley Jr, who did it to impress Michelle Pfeiffer (not kidding)
he also shot Reagan's press secretary James Brady, who ended up in a wheelchair the rest of his life
and for whom the gun background check law was named -- Brady Bill