At this writing the current occupant of the White House is number forty-five, and of that collection eight have died in office, four of whom were assassinated with guns. If you do the math, as they say, you’ll find that the death rate in the presidency is 18 percent. That makes holding the highest office in the land, by percentage, the deadliest job in America, topping even logging, fishing, roofing, sanitation work, farming and ranching, steel and iron work, police, firefighting, trucking, working as a telephone lineman, driving a taxi, and all others that make the most-dangerous list.
