11.   If it were made easy to assassinate presidents there would be no challenge to the ingenuity of aspiring killers, and they would quit, he said.

12.   In April, Duran was convicted of attempting to assassinate the president and may face life in prison when he is sentenced next month.

13.   It gave the trained killers in the mob both the motive and, in large part, the means to assassinate the president.

14.   It bothers me that the president was assassinated in my state.

15.   It was while he prepared for lunch by setting out water glasses, butter and other items that Richie heard the news that the president had been assassinated.

16.   John W. Hinckley Jr. had tried to assassinate the president.

17.   Nor, they said, did he transport a weapon across state lines to assassinate the president.

18.   Of course, no one can predict whether a mentally disturbed person directed to the White House might end up trying to assassinate the president.

19.   No one wants the president assassinated.

20.   Prosecutors said additional charges -- including an attempt to assassinate the president -- could be added.