He was either present or nearby when three presidential assassinations occurred, and all three Presidents had precognitive dreams about their deaths.
President Lincoln had a dream about his death as I wrote about in my blog, Psychic Abraham Lincoln. Robert Todd Lincoln was nearby when his father was shot at Ford's Theater. He attended his father on his deathbed at Petersen House, where the President was had been moved to after the shooting.
In 1881, Robert Lincoln was serving as President James A. Garfield's Secretary of War, when Garfield had a dream about his own death. Knowing about President Lincoln's dream, Garfield wanted to know more details about the dream. He invited Robert to join him at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2. As Lincoln was approaching President Garfield, the President was shot by Charles J. Guiteau.
Robert Lincoln was also invited by President William McKinley to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901. McKinley wanted to ask about a dream he had had about his own death as well. Before Robert could meet with him, the President was shot by Leon Czolgosz.
Robert Lincoln recognizing the frequency of these events, later declined presidential invitations. He is reputed to have said, "No, I'm not going, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."
