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Anonymous ID: 2da61e Aug. 26, 2024, 7:22 p.m. No.21487914   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8295

>>21487777

quads checked

it's a sadly interesting scenario, and an unprecedented one

to have the first, and only, two term president who has won three presidential elections

The twenty second amendment (1951) introduced term limits (2) to the Presidency.

Only FDR ran and won three times.

Which Presidents besides FDR tried for third term?

A surprising number of them, actually.

Grant was talked out of trying for a third term in 1876, and only very reluctantly acceded to his advisors’ wishes. He did, however, attempt to win the Republican nomination a few years later, but failed to get anywhere at the convention.

In 1896 the “Gold Bug Democrats” offered the nomination to Grover Cleveland who, if he had accepted it, would have been running for a third term. He declined, however, mostly because he had a much clearer view of his prospects for victory than they — he did not decline because he wouldn’t have preferred to remain president.

Teddy Roosevelt served for almost all of McKinley’s second term, and then won a full second term in his own right. In 1908 he declared that he deemed himself to have served two terms and stated that he would respect the convention of no third term. In 1912 he changed his mind. He vigorously sought the Republican nomination, but failed to wrest it from Taft. So he ran on the “Bull Moose” ticket, but came in second to Wilson. As Wilson’s second term came to an end in 1920, TR was planning another run for the presidency and was generally thought to have excellent prospects of getting the Republican nomination. However he died in his sleep before he could run — as the saying went, Death had crept up on him while he was sleeping, else there would have been a fight.

Wilson, meantime, was himself aiming for a third term in 1920. Despite his very poor health he tried to get the Democratic nomination and actually had support at the convention, even though it turned out to be not nearly enough.

The whole thing about the “no third term convention” is that it was merely a convention. Any time when a president’s second term ended, there was talk about whether he would or would not try for a third term. Jackson bowed out for reasons of health in 1836. Grant tried. Cleveland got the offer to try. TR tried. Wilson tried. Coolidge decided to end speculation in 1928 with the laconic announcement, “I do not choose to run”. Those six, by the way, are the only ones between 1824 and 1932 who were in a position to try. FDR was the seventh since 1824 to be in that position.

When FDR made the attempt in 1940 he was the third president in recent history, and the fourth or fifth overall, to have a go — it just wasn’t that big a deal. Incidentally, two presidents since him have had the opportunity to go for a third period in office: in 1952 Harry Truman lost the New Hampshire primary and, realising that discretion was the better part of valour, pulled out of the race; and in 1968 Lyndon Johnson, having also lost the New Hampshire primary, decided to throw in the towel.

So six (or seven) presidents have had a go at a third period in office. That FDR alone succeeded indicates how difficult a thing it really is (or was) to get that third period in office; and that he went on to make it four in a row shows just how skilled a politician he really was. The last opinion poll before he died gave him a 70% approval rating — after twelve years in office.

https://www.quora.com/Which-Presidents-besides-FDR-tried-for-third-term

Anonymous ID: 2da61e Aug. 26, 2024, 8:33 p.m. No.21488157   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8162 >>8170 >>8190

>>21488030

>free tour of Gitmo

What if they are actually incarcerated at this time? And on work-release? It has recently been established that not only do regular Gitmo flights of smaller military aircraft fly round trips from Florida. This had been long known. And possibly it was thought that that is it. Oh no, no ,no. It has also recently been established that the civilian government contractor Global X Airlines is flying regular round trip charter flights of full size Airbus Airliners. Direct from Washington DC to Guantanamo Bay.

 

>>21451511 past bread

This links the entire fleet.

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Screenshot from the 24th.