Yeah I guess so, they literally kept going out in public for them to be easily sniped. Unless you got 100 body doubles / clones to cover for your death in order to maintain your Entity, bad idea.
We got much better technology / SS training to protect Leaders now though. But JFK also married Jackie. if you look at history, most Kings are overthrown by those closest to them; Queen, brother, son, cousin, etc.
Foreign slaves / servants end up being the most loyal, ironically.