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A few attack Broomfield, who also made a film about Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, as a "lame sensationalist" engaged in "character assassination" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ).
Revelations: Reagan lost half his blood after John Hinckley's assassination attempt, and he approved the arms-for-hostages deal while woozily recovering from cancer surgery.
And they had reason to worry about failure: millions of dollars down the drain; a shoot-out that could be seen as an assassination; and, if there were repercussions in Pakistan, perhaps a coup.
It began guarding the president regularly in 1901, after the assassination of President William McKinley, but remained a modest enterprise until John F. Kennedy's murder.
On Massoud's assassination, see Coll, Ghost Wars, pp. 574-575.