The amendment reads: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office...
Roosevelt whose term lasted from March 4th 1933 to April 12 1945 was the only president elected to serve four consecutive terms. The military strike at the naval base inHawaiiin turn took a great toll on FDR’s reputation. His entire presidency had been engulfed in crisis that would lead to...
Roosevelt, first elected in 1932 during the height of theGreat Depression, was initially reluctant to stand for a third term, owing to Washington’s two-term precedent. But, following the outbreak of World War II in Europe and with the potential for further U.S. involvement and the Democrats...
reelected to the state senate, despite an attack oftyphoid feverthat prevented him from making public appearances during the campaign. His success was attributable in part to the publicity generated by an Albany journalist,Louis McHenry Howe. Howe saw in the tall, handsome Roosevelt a politician ...