>for 5 months
somebody say "5 months"?
Then you had the Greatest Of Them All, Glenn Miller - obviously not a Commuinust. (Wonder what happened with his plane…)
and there's this:
The number of years a president can serve in the White House is spelled out in the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." However, if an individual becomes president through the order of succession, that is by taking office after the death, resignation, or ousting of the previous president, they are allowed to serve an additional two years.
As Rep. John McCormack, D-Mass., proclaimed in 1947 during a debate on the proposal: "The framers of the Constitution considered the question and did not think they should tie the hands of future generations. I don't think we should. Although Thomas Jefferson favored only two terms, he specifically recognized the fact that situations could arise where a longer tenure would be necessary." https://archive.is/508tX https://www.thoughtco.com/why-presidents-only-serve-two-terms-3367979
n the midst of the Great Depression, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt had won election in 1932 and reelection in 1936. In 1940, as Europe was engulfed in a war that threatened to draw in the United States and without a clear Democratic successor who could consolidate the New Deal, Roosevelt (well we now know what really went down with that, don’t we.) . A general disinclination to change leadership amid crisis probably weighed heavily on the minds of voters—much more so than the perceived deep-seated opposition to a third term for a president—and Roosevelt romped to victory in 1940 and again in 1944.
Following on the heels of the establishment of the Hoover Commission and with Republicans winning a majority in Congress after the 1946 elections, they introduced an amendment to limit the president to two terms. The amendment caps the service of a president at 10 years. https://archive.is/QGXip
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Twenty-second-Amendment