bout's associates lewis powell and david herald went to the secretary of state.e. pavel managed to get into his room and even strike him several times with a dagger, but the wounds turned out to be non-fatal. for the assassination attempt on the vice president. johnson was answered by george ozerot, but he immediately aroused suspicion among the staff of the hotel where johnson was located and he was arrested. in american history, well, there have been numerous attempts or murders of current presidents of the united states and even presidential candidates. well, probably one of the most resonant is, of course, the murder of abraham lincoln, right after the civil war, this is what actually led to a rather serious constitutional crisis in the united states, yes, because his position was immediately taken by his vice president, such a northern one. democrat, he stopped the policy of reconstruction of the southern states, this is what led to the intensification of the contradiction between the south and the north, even at one point brought america to the brink of a n