A Secret Service agent shot during former President Reagan’s 1981 assassination attempt said Monday that law enforcement did a “hell of a good job” protecting the president during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting on Saturday.

( NewsNation) — A retired Secret Service agent who took a bullet during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan is praising his former agency for the way it stopped a gunman from harming President Donald Trump at a Saturday event in Washington, D.C.

The Washington Hilton Hotel, where gunfire broke out Saturday night during a White House correspondents’ dinner attended by President Trump, was also the site of an attempted assassination that left President Ronald Reagan seriously wounded in 1981.

Saturday's incident happened at The Washington Hilton Hotel. This is the same where an assassination attempt was made at former President Ronald Reagan more than 40 years ago.

The sound of gunfire at the Washington Hilton Hotel carried echoes of President Ronald Reagan's shooting outside the same hotel more than four decades ago.

Since the United States’ founding, four sitting presidents have been assassinated and several others have survived attempted murders. From Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan to the Roosevelts and Andrew Jackson,

A shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner saw President Trump evacuated after a shotgun-wielding assailant targeted security. This echoes the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan at the same Washington Hilton venue,

A gunman’s breach of a security checkpoint at a dinner attended by President Donald Trump is set to intensify pressure on lawmakers and the Secret Service to revisit proposed structural changes, even as Congress struggles to pass basic appropriations.