I don’t think if Theodore Roosevelt had run for a third term it would have been that controversial because the 22nd amendment precedent hadn’t been established yet and Theodore Roosevelt was extremely popular I think he could’ve actually gotten away with having a third term with no opposition as many actually wanted him to run for a third term at the time.
@georgemartin5980
Жыл бұрын
You would have to figure, since FDR did it twice, albeit under exigent circumstances, with only some partisan rumblings of his “kingship” coming from the opposition. It did take them a decade, after all, to get the 22nd Amendment done after FDR had won his third term.
@alexanderhilliard7732
Жыл бұрын
dude he ran and lost lmao
@Dan_Boston
Жыл бұрын
Bull moose✊
@mcbabwe4977
Жыл бұрын
Theodore Roosevelt promised to not run for a third term
@swiftflight7927
Жыл бұрын
Well, the thing is he never really served two terms. He finished McKinley's term. So, it wasn't really a third term, it was the problem that he said he wouldn't run again. If he had made no meniton of it, he would have gotten two full terms and the rest of McKinley's.
@nrkgalt
Жыл бұрын
Grant almost did serve beyond his 2 terms without even running. The election of 1876 was in dispute, and Grant was asked to stay in the presidency if they had not chosen a new president by the time his term expired. Whether that would have been legal is open to question.
@selfdo
Жыл бұрын
Grant was ASKED, but no, it would NOT have been legal at all. There would have been a contingent election in the Senate to pick the Vice-President, and likewise one in the House to pick the President. If the Senate was successful in electing a Veep, but the House was not in picked the POTUS, then the Veep-elect would have became the Acting President until a President was elected by the House. The contingent election in the Congress had happened twice, in 1801 (following the 1800 elections), and 1825. However, it wasn't all that easy. There were plenty of shenanigans going on in several of the states. The slate of electors in four of them, Oregon, Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina, were disputed when the 45th Congress convened. At that point, Tilden had 184 undisputed electoral votes, ONE shy of election, Hayes had 165. With a Democrat-controlled House and a GOP-controlled Senate, the situation was soon at an impasse. It was soon worked out to form an Election Commission, which, although set up by an Act of the lame-duck 44th US Congress, had no basis in the Constitution itself. This commission had 15 members, eight Republicans and seven Democrats, and predictably voted along party lines to find all twenty disputed electoral votes in favor of Hayes, given him the election, 185-184, two days before Grant's term was to expire at noon, local time (this was about six years prior to the adoption of the standard time zones in the United States). Had the Commission not come to this solution, the GOP-controlled Senate was set to vote Vice-Presidential candidate, William Wheeler, as the Veep, and likewise, controlling a majority of the state delegations in the House (21 to 17), although the Democrats held a plurality of 145 of 292 seats to the GOP's 131 (there were 16 House seats held by other parties). While doing so would have been entirely IAW the process set forth in Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment, there was still another problem: It had been only twelve years since the conclusion of the Civil War. Although there was no significant sentiment to once again secede from the Union in the South, Reconstruction was largely over, save for the three former Confederate states in the election dispute: Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina. The Federal Army was but 100K strong, and had its hands full dealing with Native Americans in the West as well as what occupation remained. Southern Democrats were not really all that enthusiastic about party man Samuel Tilden being POTUS, as he was a New Yorker. Indeed, they had respect for the outgoing President, Ulysses Grant, considering him a voice of moderation against the hated Radical Republicans, and might have voted for him in enough numbers had he run for a third term to win. What the Southern states REALLY wanted was the end of Reconstruction itself, and were willing to tolerate another Republican in the White House in return for the "Yankee" troopers leaving. There had also been threats of violence on both sides, with the Governor of Kentucky actually threatening to send his state's militia to march on Washington to prevent Hayes' inauguration. Given that the actual strength of the US Army within 100 miles of DC was less than 7,000 men, with relatively few combat troops (mostly uniformed bureaucrats and garrison troopers), this was not an idle threat. So although the GOP had the means to deny Tilden the White House, they had no desire to stir up further troubles. Also, the country had gone through the "Panic of 1873", then known as the "Great Depression", considered a financial hangover after the Civil War; it was felt that the country simply could not afford another. Libtards bemoan this second "corrupt bargain" (the first considered to be Henry Clay giving support to John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson once the Election of 1824 went into the House, Clay was later appointed by Adams as SecState) as the start of "Jim Crow" in the South and the sudden end of Reconstruction. In reality, this was a fait accompli by the 1876 election, as the aforementioned economic depression had dampened the enthusiasm of the GOP to demand large expenditures to maintain the US Army in occupation of the erstwhile Confederacy; most of the troops had already gone home and been discharged. This also more or less put an end to the first version of the Klu Klux Klan, as, without the presence of "damned Yankees", its appeal rapidly diminished; even its founder, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, disavowed it.
@IJustSHlTaBrick
Жыл бұрын
@@selfdojit wrote a whole essay
@torylivingston8368
Жыл бұрын
This is why we have the 20th Amendment, ratified under FDR.
@mouradmejdi7026
Жыл бұрын
Technically Teddy Roosevelt, Truman, and LBJ would only be going for their second terms as they’d assumed office during the terms of the President that they were VP of
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, that's what I've been trying to tell these guys.
@docadams7099
Жыл бұрын
Teddy Roosevelt could also have run for president under the 25th amendment because the third term he sought was non-consecutive to his other two terms.
@jeremyladue4702
Жыл бұрын
But yet congress and Supreme Court get unlimited terms? That really needs to change as well
@bostonrailfan2427
Жыл бұрын
Supreme Court is appointed for life, they don’t have terms
@jeremyladue4702
Жыл бұрын
@@bostonrailfan2427 then terms for them should start. If not they should have no say in anything. Probably why others keep running
@ShadowOfCicero
Жыл бұрын
In theory, the Supreme Court justices, who are after all ruling on legal cases, need to be in a position where they can follow the law no matter where it leads. If they had to think about elections, they couldn't. But it's been treated as a partisan office since at least 1986. Good luck getting the constitutional amendment, though. As for Congress, the original theory was that if you liked your Congressman, he should be able to keep his job. On the flipside, if the voters couldn't muster the will to vote the bums out, they would just vote new bums in. That amendment is theoretically possible, but if you trigger a convention to make it happen, who knows the final outcome? Maybe if some elder statesman had set a similar tradition to Washington, it could have happened. Just goes to show how unique Washington was.
@dannyc7839
Жыл бұрын
They make the rules. What honestly do you expect XD
@michaelmclaughlin4247
Жыл бұрын
Trump and the Republicans tried to make that happen for the Senate at least. Too bad too many career politicians (on both sides) tried standing in the way of that.
@matthewnada913
Жыл бұрын
Crazy to think that Washington was offered to be the king. The irony! We fought one monarchy and almost established another
@jb888888888
Жыл бұрын
The 22nd didn't make an exception specifically for Truman. It was an exception for whoever was President when the amendment took effect, which happened to be Truman.
@selfdo
Жыл бұрын
Quibble, quibble, quibble, of course it didn't name HST specifically; when the Amendment was enacted, no one could say how long it'd take to be ratified. It just worked out that way; but Truman, seeing that his popularity had waned considerably, in no small part due to his perceived bungling of the Korean War, decided he was done. This was before the enactment of the Presidential Pension Act; Truman and his wife Bess owned their Missouri home and had some modest investments, but by no means were all that wealthy. He did pen a book deal shortly after leaving office (he believed it would have been wrong to accept it while still POTUS) which would have helped their finances quite a bit, but until then, they'd have lived quite modestly off his miniscule Army Captain's pension and Social Security! Today, with the pension available not only to a former POTUS but also for his service as a US Senator, he'd have done quite well financially in his post-political life.
@supernovaxs9480
Жыл бұрын
It's crazy that the entire trajectory of WW1 - and thus WW2 and the rest of human history - could've been altered if Teddy Roosevelt hadn't run and split the GOP vote.
@sehr.geheim
Жыл бұрын
I don't think it would have changed much. The two us parties always represented very similar ideas and every president ever has been bound to fullfil the needs of the ruling class. The only reason we even have this conversation comes from the illusion that this is a democracy for the people, and the very linear way pop history looks at "key events" in the past. If Hitler had died as a baby, there would have been a different push for fascism by the german ruling class. The nazi party was funded by monopolistic industrialists and most of their economic policies helped those oligarchs. ww2 was too profitable for the us ever to back out of it. Electing a different president/party would maybe have delayed it, but american gunpowder was gonna find it's way over to Europe eitherway, there's too many variables for us to reduce these events to single people's decisions
@GermanShepherd1983
Жыл бұрын
Teddy would have had the US in the war as soon as the first shot was fired in 1914. Wilson at least kept us out until 1917. I really feel TR would have made things worse, not better.
@99batran
Жыл бұрын
@@GermanShepherd1983 I think the US would join the war as soon as the sinking of the Lusitania (1915) but helps end it earlier in late 1917, or at least the first few months into 1918
@supernovaxs9480
Жыл бұрын
@@sehr.geheim That's a good point. I always say to people who claim that WW1 wouldn't have happened if the driver of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car hadn't taken a wrong turn that WW1 was really a ticking time bomb and the assassination was the straw that broke the camel's back.
@kalburgy2114
Жыл бұрын
@Sehr Geheim Du Pont sold 80% of the black powder used by both sides anyway, so America didn't have to get into WWI for her corporations to profit.
@lhaviland8602
Жыл бұрын
It's interesting to speculate how history would be different without the 22nd amendment: Eisenhower and Reagan were old and had health issues, Johnson would've died in his third term if he'd gotten one, Ford, Carter, HW Bush, and Trump all lost after one term, and W Bush was so unpopular by the end of his second term that he was ready to be out of there as I understand it. The only presidents who would've been both able and willing to serve a third term since 1951 were Clinton and Obama. Considering their successors and how close run both 2000 and 2016 were, I think it's safe to say this amendment has had quite an impact and not necessarily the one it's creators imagined.
@oldfogey4679
Жыл бұрын
L what impact did the term limiting amendment have that its founders didn't expect?
@mikemancini313
18 күн бұрын
@@lhaviland8602 Not entirely sure about Clinton nowadays after getting impeached. I don’t even want to know what a third term would Clinton would be like because that would have been during the same time when he was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein on an island with young girls 🤢. I feel like that stuff would have came to light a lot more when he was president and uh… well, I don’t want to go down that rabbit hole.
@PereMarquette1223
Жыл бұрын
A lot of people don’t realize that Gerald Ford is adopted and is originally from Nebraska. We here in Michigan treat him as our own since he came here so young.
@jb888888888
Жыл бұрын
Lincoln was from Kentucky and Obama from Hawaii but both are considered Illinoisans.
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
@@jb888888888 And Reagan was the only President ever born in Illinois, but of course we think of him as a Californian.
@toddvaughan3709
Жыл бұрын
Adopted only by his Stepfather he still had his biological mother
@PereMarquette1223
Жыл бұрын
@@toddvaughan3709 but his name was changed in the process. That’s no small detail
@docadams7099
Жыл бұрын
Ford's birth name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr. He took his stepfather's name as his own, becoming Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
@rockit6553
Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks for the correction. Yeah Truman & Johnson did only run for 1 full term. My math was sure off.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
So the answer is Grant, both Roosevelts, and Truman, with only FDR succeeding. LBJ doesn't count, since it would've only been effectively his 2nd term under the terms of the 22nd Amendment.
@someguy2135
Жыл бұрын
LBJ was also getting strong opposition due to the unpopularity of the war. His opponents in the primary were doing very well when he made his announcement that he wouldn't run. That may have influenced his decision.
@bigbloopboy8892
Жыл бұрын
IIRC he died just a couple months after the date he would have left office had he won reelection in 1968
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
Also he knew he was going to die soon.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
@@bigbloopboy8892 Actually he died just before his term would have ended in 1973, BUT that also assumes the same lifespan which ignores the pressures of the Presidency that he would have had, which particularly with Vietnam would have been colossal.
@samuelwoolwineiv7886
Ай бұрын
@@bigbloopboy8892No, he died two DAYS after a hypothetical third term of his would have expired, on January 22 1973. His health had been sub-optimal at best ever since he suffered a heart attack in 1955 that was described by doctors as being the worst one could have and still survive. When he resumed smoking after leaving office in 1969, his fate was all but sealed.
@NewDealChief
Жыл бұрын
I have a few corrections here: In technicality, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson ran for their SECOND full terms. T. R. actually ran and lost in 1912, while Truman and LBJ considered running in 1952 and 1968 respectively, before ultimately dropping out. LBJ is actually the last U.S. President to voluntarily not run for a second term in history.
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
All the information provided by your "corrections" was also included in the video.
@NewDealChief
Жыл бұрын
@@BS-vx8dg It isn't LoL.
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
@@NewDealChief As I was listening to the video, I took note of his failure to mention these partial terms by these VPs who became President, and I thought I would make a comment similar to yours. But I made it to the end of the video, by which time he had not only pointed out these partial terms, but had noted the exact length of each and the ramifications of those times would have had, had the 25th Amendment not been in effect. Sorry you missed that part.
@bostonrailfan2427
Жыл бұрын
@@BS-vx8dg none of that was said, he completely ignored the information
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
@@bostonrailfan2427 I'm not going to watch it a third time just to put in the time stamps for you.
@TheBcoolGuy
Жыл бұрын
1:32 Look how uninterested and fed up the army man is there and how Truman is giving off a stronger sense of being inaugurated as President than FDR is. It's impressive how telling photos and expressions can be when we don't even intend on it.
@michaelbayer5094
Жыл бұрын
It's entirely accurate to use "3rd term" regarding TR, Truman, and LBJ. All 3 suceeded to the office on the death of their predecessor. In fact, under the 22nd Amendment LBJ was eligible in 1968.
@spikespa5208
Жыл бұрын
Eligible, yes. But LBJ didn't *RUN* as the title said. Inheriting the office isn't the same as *running* for it.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
@@spikespa5208 It's ambiguous. It could just as easily be interpreted as running for an extra term in office after already serving two of them.
@docadams7099
Жыл бұрын
It's likely that LBJ withdrew from the 1968 election because of how deeply divided the country was then over Viet Nam and because of his declining health. He had diverticulitis.
@TheSSUltimateGoku
Жыл бұрын
You forgot about Gerald Ford. He could’ve only ran one term since he took over during Nixon’s Second term under two years. So his first term was considered a full term so he wouldn’t have been able to run again had he beaten Jimmy Carter in 1976 Election he wouldn’t have been able to run in the 1980 election.
@kayzeaza
Жыл бұрын
We he didn’t really ‘forget’ because Ford never ran for a third term because he couldn’t even win a second term! Haha
@TheSSUltimateGoku
Жыл бұрын
@@kayzeaza My point is if he had won his reelection he would’ve not have been able to run again in 1980.
@GermanShepherd1983
Жыл бұрын
Same can be said about trump. We all heard him demanding that he be allowed to run for a third term but he forgot that he was such a loser that he couldn't even win a second term.
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
Not sure how old you are (IOW, if you can remember it) but in the early Spring of 1980 there were GOP leaders so nervous about the obvious inelectability of Reagan in the general that there were whispers of having Ford enter the primaries midway through, to block Reagan. (And then there's the completely separate story about how Ford almost because the VP candidate to Reagan in 1980; *that* actually came close to happening.)
@TheBcoolGuy
Жыл бұрын
@@GermanShepherd1983 Still, looking at the vote counts that put Biden into office, it still made Trump the second-most popular President ever.
@zarajday
Жыл бұрын
I feel like if someone wants it for more than 2, i question their motives. Most two termers come out of it looking like babadooks
@gamewithadam7235
Жыл бұрын
Love how everyone acts like if you run for a third term you think you're better than F.D.R. but in reality it just means you think you're equal.
@KyotoShanghailTV
Жыл бұрын
Great video.
@patrickmccarthy7877
Жыл бұрын
A two term limit is needed for all American politicians from the president on down.
@EpicAndrew97
Жыл бұрын
Lyndon B Johnson could have ran until 1973
@stevetournay6103
Жыл бұрын
"Run".
@seanc7342
Жыл бұрын
Considering he died in January 1973 that would of been pretty hard
@stove1592
Жыл бұрын
he ded
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
Interestingly, LBJ died only two days after what would have been the end of his last term in 1973.
@ash_11117
Жыл бұрын
Thank God he didn’t
@SimonMoon5
Жыл бұрын
Isn't there still this loophole (that nobody seems willing to explore)? Suppose Mr. A has been elected president twice (two full terms) but wants to be president again. He suggests that Mr. Patsy run for president, with Mr. A as vice-president. Then, once Mr. Patsy becomes president, he resigns, allowing his vice-president (Mr. A) to assume the role of president for a third full term.
@bostonrailfan2427
Жыл бұрын
the loophole is the midpoint, becoming President on or after January 21st of the third year of the term allows for two full terms. it’s just under 10 years total.
@richardterroni9433
Жыл бұрын
@@bostonrailfan2427 Not exactly 10 years total. I can remember someone telling me that Gerald Ford would have been able to serve for just over 10 years if 1. He had been Ronald Reagan's VP (instead of Bush) and 2. Reagan has died in the 1981 Assisination Attempt. By the time the 1984 Presidential Election came along Ford would have been President for slightly over 6 years but since he was never elected to a term of his own he still would have been eligible for election. So if all 3 things happen he would have been President for slightly over 10 years. Also someone can be a VP as many times as someone wants and can assend to the Presidency as many times as nesesary (provided they have never been elected to a term of their own). Someone could have been President for over 10 years via multiple VP successions to the Presidency and still would be eligible for a term of their own. The correct limit is 10 consecutive years, and also you can never be elected more than twice.
@sydhenderson6753
Жыл бұрын
No. Twelfth Amendment: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." So he's ineligible to run for VP.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
The 12th Amendment prevents you from running as Vice President if you're ineligible to become President, which most people interpret as applying to the term limits under the 22nd Amendment.
@joshmg25
2 ай бұрын
If the government does implement a plan to repeal the 22nd Amendment, voters better have a say in it. I’m actually in favor of extending the amendment to include Congress members as well.(maybe not necessarily two terms, but a limit to the time they can serve nonetheless).
@MFPhoto1
Жыл бұрын
Wilson wanted a third term? No! He was way too ill to even consider another term.
@Benjifan2000
Жыл бұрын
He is also too terrible to have even been president.
@tylerkochman1007
Жыл бұрын
He was delusional enough not to recognize his own impaired state
@Niel2760
Жыл бұрын
He outlived his successor.
@MFPhoto1
Жыл бұрын
@@tylerkochman1007 He was confined to bed. How could Wilson not realize how sick he was.
@bostonrailfan2427
Жыл бұрын
he was suffering for months before the idea of running again came up, he never had the chance to consider it
@mikestefka6668
Жыл бұрын
Washington had it right, should have been added to the constitution earlier.
@nathanielhermanson6987
Ай бұрын
Presidents who served two terms George Washington (Assumed office in April 1789) Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe Andrew Jackson Abraham Lincoln (Died in office on April 1865) Ulysses S Grant Grover Cleveland (Elected non consecutively in 1884 and 1892) William McKinley (Died in office in September 1901) Theodore Roosevelt (Assumed office in September 1901) Woodrow Wilson Calvin Coolidge (Assumed office in August 1923) Franklin D Roosevelt (Elected from 1932 to 1944 until he died in April 1945) Harry S Truman (Assumed office in April 1945) Dwight D Eisenhower Lyndon B Johnson (Assumed office in November 1963) Richard Nixon (Resigned office in August 1974) Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton George W Bush Barack Obama (If Donald Trump wins in 2024, he will become the 2nd president to serve a non consecutive term) (Joe Biden initially ran for president in 2024, but was dropped out possibly due to old age)
@AsianChuGaming
Жыл бұрын
Great video!
@Fudgetastic2
Жыл бұрын
Take a drink every time this guy says "third term"
@stephenspencer4672
Жыл бұрын
In 1968 LBJ could have sought a another term having succeeded JFK more than halfway into his predecessor's term. By 1968 things had deteriorated so much for Johnson especially his messing up things so badly in Vietnam and the fact that it had become dangerous for him to travel about.
@resyndicated
Жыл бұрын
I'm planning to do a video on LBJ not seeking a third term and his final years. Lot of people seem to think he gave up on life because of how hated he was upon leaving office. He built his whole life around becoming president, and then he left office disgraced. People praised his actions in civil rights, but he seemed to focus on the negative to the point of paranoia. In his mind, Vietnam was probably the only thing that'd ever define his legacy.
@stephenspencer4672
Жыл бұрын
@resyndicated Yes I know but I still think if JFK had lived things would have turned out differently. Then there's the fact that a proper autopsy was not performed on the body of the slain president in Dallas where he was murdered. Instead his remains were spirited out of Texas just a few hours after the assassination. I still have questions in my mind about that and other things that have not been adequately answered 😕. By of luck on your continued research.
@davidcoles198
Жыл бұрын
Why is Lyndon Johnson pictured with those who ran for a third term?
@thattimestampguy
Жыл бұрын
0:40 2 Term Tradition, not Law 1:44 1:54 Ulysses S Grant 3:45 Calvin Coolidge & Theodore Roosevelt & Harry S. Truman, all three served after Presidents died in office. 6:49 Washington only wanted 1 term. He was exhausted, he never felt he was qualified. 7:31 Repealing the 22nd?
@aak24815
Жыл бұрын
you forgot john adams
@mikemancini313
Жыл бұрын
Lyndon B. Johnson actually dropped out because a health study conducted on him determined he would be dead by 64 in 1973 which turned out to be correct. Unfortunately, he started smoking again after his presidency :/
@kalburgy2114
Жыл бұрын
Actually the Viet Nam War had made him unelectable.
@mikemancini313
Жыл бұрын
@@kalburgy2114 Not necessarily. He wouldn't have been in good health to run another term. He had several heart problems during his last four years and it was apparent that he had served in every government position possible so attempting to run for president for 10 years would be too much for him. Much like Calvin Coolidge.
@docadams7099
22 күн бұрын
LBJ also suffered from diverticulitis which makes a person very sick when it acts up. Add to that his heart condition and the strain of the presidency, and it's little wonder he wanted out. His sagging popularity may have been what sealed the deal. LBJ actually suffered a heart attack in 1962, while he was vice president.
@mikemancini313
22 күн бұрын
@@docadams7099 I recall he also suffered a heart attack sometime in the 1950s although it was quite common in those days. Dwight Eisenhower also had one around that time.
@mariatolis4529
Жыл бұрын
Teddy Roosevelt served one first time was McKinley term.
@JustACarnotaurus
Жыл бұрын
Good thing Wilson only served 2 terms(even though he should have served none)
@mpetersen6
Жыл бұрын
If one just looks at how much the office ages its holders if they are elected to two terms. Then you should wonder just why anyone would want to run for a third term. As to the "inheritance" issue I've seen or heard people argue that certain people should run for president and win because their father or husband etc was president.
@CheeseMiser
Жыл бұрын
Congress could learn a thing from this.
@robertjohnson5838
Жыл бұрын
6:24 Are you kidding me?! Even if LBJ had won the Democrat nomination, he'd have lost the election to Nixon, and knew it.
@weldin
Жыл бұрын
In 1968? Nixon barely won that year. LBJ wasn’t popular, but it’s not like Nixon was either. Nixon probably wouldn’t have even won if the Democratic nominee was RFK rather than Hubert Humphrey.
@drewengel7073
Жыл бұрын
@@weldin RFK would've lost to Nixon, we seem to forget but RFK was radical even for Democrats, even now he would be seen as a radical. Humphrey had a chance and would've won if not for a multitude of reasons: Democratic Convention chaos, the riot in Chicago, not distancing himself from Johnson on Vietnam early enough, the Nixon campaign throwing a money wrench into the peace talks, etc.
@weldin
Жыл бұрын
@@drewengel7073 He was more liberal than Humphrey, but only on a few things. Namely the Vietnam war and organized labor. It was the Vietnam war and the Democratic convention chaos that lost the dems the election, and I don't think RFK would've lost with his position on Vietnam and the fact that those riots wouldn't have ever even happened. I like Humphrey. He was a lot of the reason those big reforms under Johnson got passed. He was just sorta like a more practical, less charismatic RFK.
@drewengel7073
Жыл бұрын
@@weldin RFK was also way too extreme for the time on race relations.
@robertjohnson5838
Жыл бұрын
@@weldin The only reason Nixon was close vs HHH in 1968 was Wallace. Had not Wallace run, Nix would have had a landslide in 1968 almost as big as he got in1972.
@pathutchison7688
Жыл бұрын
What if after you w win two terms, you run for VP and the presidential candidate you run with, wins and then resigns?
@stephenkehl7158
Жыл бұрын
As I understand it, this would be an acceptable path back to the presidency. The only requirements to be president are to be natural-born, at least 35 years old, and reside in the US for 14 years prior. The 22nd Amendment states no one may be ELECTED president or vice president if they are not qualified to hold office as president, but holding office and being elected to office are not necessarily the same thing- just ask Gerald Ford. Since the 22nd Amendment doesn’t set a qualification for being president, just for being elected president, there should be no impediment to a two-term president being elected as vice president. Then, upon resignation of the president, succeeding back to the presidency, as there are no restrictions on a vice president succeeding a president. That’s my take.
@pathutchison7688
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenkehl7158 really appreciate your quite thoughtful answer. You’re int the 1% of commenters who use logic in their posts. So thank you for that. But your words make me see a possible problem. If the 22 amendment says “no one may be elected president or VP if they are not qualified to hold the office of president”, would the fact that they already served two terms mean that they in fact were not “qualified” to be president? Because I’m that case, this method wouldn’t work. However, if you were president for two terms, then the next term another ticket won the presidency, while you ran for congress and a representative, won said election, were names speaker of the house, and then both the president and vice president resigned, maybe THAT would be a way around it? Curious what you think about both of my suppositions.
@stephenkehl7158
Жыл бұрын
@@pathutchison7688 The only qualifications to BE president or act as president (or vice president) are found in the 12th Amendment. The 22nd Amendment deals only with one possible path to become president, and is moot on additional qualifications due to a term limit to be elected vice president. Thus, there’s no disqualification to being elected VP. Once in that role, a former two-term president could again become president through the death, incapacity, impeachment or resignation of the elected president.
@pathutchison7688
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenkehl7158 cool. Thanks for sharing. Been nice talkin to ya.
@pathutchison7688
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenkehl7158 hey. I looked deeply into this, and what I’ve found has been very interesting. Basically, I can find nowhere set in stone either way on whether having served two terms as president would make you ineligible to serve as VP. We may have found an issue that, if events led to it happening, would probably be settled in the Supreme Court. Thought you’d like to know. It’s been nice talking to you.
@Robbi496
Жыл бұрын
Ok, technically Harry Truman ran for a second term, not a third
@boulevard14
Жыл бұрын
And Lyndon Johnson.
@VaiCaDep0893
Жыл бұрын
And Theodore Roosevelt
@spikespa5208
Жыл бұрын
Essentially, a clickbait title, using the word "run". And Johnson didn't *RUN* for even a second term, much less a third.
@riuzunshine136
Жыл бұрын
@@spikespa5208 Literally. You can't count the presidency they had because of the hasty end of their predecessor as one they ran for. In any case, they ran for Vice President, which is not the same thing.
@libertarian1637
Жыл бұрын
Repeal 25, I don’t think so; in fact we need to add another amendment limiting congress to say 12 years between both houses.
@HereBeRabbit
Жыл бұрын
I never knew that Grant tried to run for a third term... The way his Presidency went it seems like two terms would have been more then enough for him...
@gnomesmellterribly7233
Жыл бұрын
He felt bad, he wanted to show that he learned from his mistakes. He didn't want to be seen as someone who is corrupt, which he wasn't and he wanted to prove that by cleaning his cabinet
@benjamintillema3572
Жыл бұрын
@@gnomesmellterribly7233 And yet he was an ally of Roscoe Conkling: a deeply corrupt Senator who was the main supporter of Grant's candidacy in 1880. Conkling made it his mission to continue the spoils system and when he couldn't get one of Grant a third term he did everything in his power to strong arm and undermine Garfield (until he shot himself in the foot by resigning in protest expecting his lackeys to put him back in a Senator, only to realize after he gave up political power that corruption does not breed loyalty and they enstated someone else).
@DovahFett
Жыл бұрын
@@benjamintillema3572 Grant was definitely naive, but he was never corrupt. His mistake was believing that the people around him were as genuine in their convictions as he was. That's reflected in his memoirs, where he goes out of his way to excuse the actions of many people, from allied generals, to Confederate generals, to politicians that helped and opposed him. He always tried to see the good in people, and it frequently came back to bite him. He could read a battlefield, but not a man's heart.
@selfdo
Жыл бұрын
@@DovahFett So many senior officers in the Union Army had, in effect, bought their commissions in their respective State militias and were exploiting their military careers for further political gain. Others were in it to plunder the Southern states they operated in, and quite a few stayed as "carpetbaggers". Most of the more "gentlemanly" US Army officers that Grant knew prior to the Civil War, he fought AGAINST during it as they joined the CSA.
@cervanntes
Жыл бұрын
@@DovahFett "He could read a battlefield, but not a man's heart." pretty much sums Grant up perfectly. He was way too trusting and it bit him in the backside many times throughout his life.
@monkeyman6758
Жыл бұрын
Had the 22nd amendment not been passed, what presidents since then do you think would have tried to run for a third term?
@redjirachi1
Жыл бұрын
Eisenhower: I imagine he wanted to retire anyway at that point Kennedy (if he wasn't shot): It would depend on how he would've handled Vietnam in the second term he probably would've won Johnson: Technically he did consider a third term as his first term was the last third of Kennedy's. He'd probably die in office Nixon (if Watergate never happened): Given the landslide that was 1972 and his paranoia, he would probably want to hold onto power Reagan: The only other thing stopping him would be his growing Alzheimers Clinton: Would want to try it Bush Jr: Wouldn't want to due to how unpopular he was at the time Obama: Would also want to try it
@TheSSUltimateGoku
Жыл бұрын
@@redjirachi1 Clinton would’ve definitely not tried it he had been already impeached because of the scandal. I could see Obama running again he definitely would’ve easily crapped on Trump and prevented 4 years of the foolery that he caused. Dwight D Eisenhower probably would have ran for a third term since he was the first person who couldn’t run for a third term under the 22nd amendment but it would’ve probably been more of the Republicans pushing for him to run similar to George Washington situation. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a centralist and wasn’t a conservative Republican he was the last great Republican in my opinion. Democrats probably wouldn’t even have tried to have a serious candidate run against him considering that they had the same guy run against Eisenhower twice and got beat badly. Can’t imagine John F Kennedy beating Dwight D. Eisenhower regardless if they had a TV debate Eisenhower was already established as a president and a powerful one them seen him on TV distraught wouldn’t have changed the viewers mind because of the actions he had done for 8 years. So I don’t think the TV debates whatever affected Eisenhower like it did with Nixon.
@Bulldog_Trader
Жыл бұрын
@@redjirachi1 add Clinton and Obama
@yanibambang3047
Жыл бұрын
@@redjirachi1 Trump:he would enjoy 3rd term before death Biden:too old,he would ended up dying in office
@edarcuri182
Жыл бұрын
@@Bulldog_Trader Maybe. BillyJeff Clinton was well liked by many, but he was elected twice without a majority of the popular vote. Hard to say on that one.
@ericoberlies7537
Жыл бұрын
“Due to his lack of popularity …” that’ll do it every time.
@yashtherider9755
Жыл бұрын
Cleverland had different tragedy for having non consecutive terms
@richardterroni9433
Жыл бұрын
It's not even really a 10 year limit because Vice Presidents can complete terms of mutiple Presidencies if they never been elected President in the first place.
@ECKohns
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think they would allow a former President to be nominated for Vice President.
@richardterroni9433
Жыл бұрын
@@ECKohns Why not, as long as they haven't been elected twice (or once if they served at least 2 years of another term) they can be nominated for Vice President, Reagan nearly selected Gerald Ford as his VP choice.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
Not according to the 12th Amendment, they can't. If you are ineligible to run for President, you are likewise ineligible to run for Vice President. Gerald Ford was still eligible for another term.
@richardterroni9433
Жыл бұрын
@@Compucles That's what I meant so it is not a hard 10 year limit
@jb888888888
Жыл бұрын
If you're not legally qualified to be President you aren't allowed to run for Vice President.
@Svensk7119
Жыл бұрын
From what I understand, Grant never wanted a third term.
@hzq-yg8bj
Жыл бұрын
Yeah he did, he ran in 1880 and almost won the nomination
@UnholyWrath3277
Жыл бұрын
No president needs a third term. Senators and representatives need term limits themselves. No excuse the government is run almost exclusively by 70+ year old career politicians
@mmcleod8148
Жыл бұрын
You are counting the times HT, LBJ and TR ran as vice presidents.
@supercharger5727
Жыл бұрын
Lyndon b Johnson didn't even run for a second term
@thomasarias773
Жыл бұрын
Coolidge and Teddy Roosevelt didn’t run for “third” terms
@ChattyK8676
Жыл бұрын
Franklin D. Roosevelt actually ran 4 terms, but he sadly passed away during his 4th term, arguably his death is melanoma, a type of skin cancer. But his true death was a cerebral hemorrhage. But to Douglas, you gotta chill and quit wasting your time.
@selfdo
Жыл бұрын
FDR passed of a sudden brain aneurysm. Good grief, are you actually literate? As for his passing being "sad", he died in the arms of ONE of his mistresses, and who can say how "grieving" was widow Elanor?
@chuckschafer942
Жыл бұрын
NO HE DIED OF A CEBERAL HEMORAGE
@ChattyK8676
Жыл бұрын
@@chuckschafer942 I said arguably, I never said it was.
@ChattyK8676
Жыл бұрын
@@selfdo I said arguably? You gotta' chill.
@ChattyK8676
Жыл бұрын
@@selfdo Why waste your time replying?
@Scottj2011
11 ай бұрын
I think Johnson would have lost a second full term because of Vietnam
@davidj3416
Жыл бұрын
You can run for as many terms as you want, but can only serve 2 full terms.
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
"You can run for as many terms as you want, but can only serve 2 full terms." Not so, David. If I run and win and resign after a year, and then four (or more) years later run again and again resign after a year, I have served a total of only two years as President. But I can never again run.
@alpha-omega2362
Жыл бұрын
"If nominated I will not run..If elected, I will not serve.." who said that?
@BS-vx8dg
Жыл бұрын
@@alpha-omega2362 LBJ, in the Spring of 1968.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
@@BS-vx8dg You completely missed David's distinction between "run for" and "serve". *Anyone anywhere* can run for the Presidency. A three-year-old girl in Iceland can *run* -- she just can't *serve* .
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
@@notvalidcharacters No, you'd be blocked from even running again if you've exhausted the term limits. There are procedures to follow to officially run for public office, and you'd be blocked trying to complete the very first step if you're ineligible for any reason.
@griffinclary61
Жыл бұрын
Wrong all but fDR is the only one that ran and run more than 2 terms
@osazenomwan
Жыл бұрын
FDR won a record 4th term not third. It’s only a few months after his 4th term he died
@sydhenderson6753
Жыл бұрын
He won both a 3rd and a 4th. It's hard to win a 4th term otherwise.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
...and the 3rd term was also a record.
@fundude4566
10 ай бұрын
Reagan also supported repealing or at least modifying the 22nd amendment after he won his second term considering how popular he was at the time and by the end of his term.
@user-bf1rj2cz3v
10 ай бұрын
However, the 25th Amendment would have applied if he were eligible to be President beyond that point, because in 1994, he was suffering from Altzimer's Disease.
@josephweiss1559
Жыл бұрын
Harry Truman ran for one term 1948, he replaced Roosevelt in 1945
@TheAeroAvatar
Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention James Buchanan, who also refused a second term. Not that he had any chance of one, anyway.
@flyboy152
Жыл бұрын
The 2 presidents he mentioned had said, upfront, that they would only serve one term. Buchanan had made no such pledge, but you’re right, he had no chance to win a 2nd term.
@TheAeroAvatar
Жыл бұрын
@@flyboy152 If not right away, he did swear off any talk of a second term at some point
@stevehartman1730
Жыл бұрын
The Republican congress didnt want another quote Roosevelt unquote.
@safebox36
Жыл бұрын
I always thought the amendment forbid two consecutive terms. But I guess that would have been abused in some way.
@bigbloopboy8892
Жыл бұрын
Coolidge would have only had two terms if he was reelected since he served under 2 years of Harding's term
@williamwingo4740
Жыл бұрын
The 22nd amendment wasn't adopted until 1951, years after Coolidge, so it didn't apply to him. The republicans pushed it through when they finally regained control of congress after WWII. They wanted to be sure there would never be another multiple-term (Franklin) Roosevelt.
@0011peace
Жыл бұрын
Johnson didn't run for 3rd term he took over for Kenedy.then ran for two terms
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
No, he ran for *one* term, in 1964.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
@@notvalidcharacters Didn't you watch the video? He initially ran again in 1968 but dropped out early.
@chuckschafer942
Жыл бұрын
1 TERM HE DID NOT RUN IN 1968
@alfredvalrie5541
Жыл бұрын
The over enunciation 😂
@ender7278
Жыл бұрын
Term limits for the US president are redundant. They're so prominent they'll just get voted out if people don't like them.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
That doesn't always happen if he becomes too powerful. Don't you think elected dictators like Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin would be voted out of office if it were actually feasible.
@mattgarland9090
Жыл бұрын
Calvin Coolidge is the biggest Chad no one knows about
@selfdo
Жыл бұрын
WTF is a "Chad"?
@mattgarland9090
Жыл бұрын
@@selfdo it’s like a gen z thing where you describe people that are really good at what they do or just cool in general as a “Chad”
@LolManI-75
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the 22nd amendment will ever be abolished & presidents can have more than two terms again...idk, probably
@TheBcoolGuy
Жыл бұрын
We've got another one in the running!
@LarcR
Жыл бұрын
Two terms is plenty long enough for Presidents to serve. Also, I think Congressmen should be limited to two terms (or maybe 2 for Senators and 3 for Representatives).
@samuelwoolwineiv7886
Ай бұрын
I would say 2 for for the Senate, and 6 for the House. That comes out to 12 for both.
@darrylbunch6929
Жыл бұрын
Since trump hasn't stopped whining since 2020 & a failed coup attempt & 11,780 votes, that should CONSTITUTE a 3rd term. But that remains TOP SECRET.
@rparl
Жыл бұрын
There is a technique that makes it possible, if unlikely, to serve many years as President. First term: You run and win, serving four years. Next, your veep runs for President and you run as veep. After a brief period, the President resigns and you take over as President. You also select a new veep. Rinse and repeat. You only need a sufficient supply of loyal Presidential running mates who will resign when you ask.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
Many people believe that the 12th Amendment causes the 22nd Amendment to also prevent you from also running as Vice President if you've already exceeded your term limits as President, and the Supreme Court would certainly rule that way if someone explicitly attempted such a stunt. This would also apply to keep someone from being appointed as VP under the 25th Amendment (like Ford and Rockefeller) if your term limit eligibility had already expired.
@oldfogey4679
Жыл бұрын
Ross please don't make things easy for trump or desantis to exploit! Shh!
@musicauthority7828
Жыл бұрын
There were a lot of people who only knew of FDR as President. he was President for four terms and and was in a wheelchair. because he had contracted Polio, and a lot of people didn't know he was in a wheelchair. he was one of the best Presidents this Country ever had. he pulled this Country out of the great depression. and got us though a world war that was fought on six fronts. and he started Social Security and many other programs that are still around today. if it wasn't for FDR we would all be speaking German now.
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
Not bad for a filthy-rich Communist.
@chickenee
Жыл бұрын
I wonder which president had the genius idea of convincing everyone that america "saved the world" from nazi germany. People used to have the historic literacy not to believe this, but at some point it flipped.
@Benjifan2000
Жыл бұрын
I think that they should be able to run for more than 2 terms because we are the ones that choose if they become president. Also, if Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, the U.S. would be a better place.
@Lena-1312
Жыл бұрын
And if Obama had run, Trump wouldnt have won
@atulvaibhav5376
Жыл бұрын
That makes a primal fallacy. You Should be able to elect a new leader with similar views. Otherwise you are just getting a personalistic rule and that leads to "retire a hero or die a villain ".
@benjamintillema3572
Жыл бұрын
The Constitution does not give the American people the right to choose the president (99% of US citizens couldn't even vote in 1788) the Electoral College does. Plus there are already rules that disqualify people even if we would want to elect them: no one under 35 can run, the president has to be a naturalized citizen of the US, and if a president is impeached and convicted in the Senate they can't be reelected even the people want them to.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
That can be dangerous, though, if the politician becomes too powerful. There are cases throughout history where dictators like Saddam Hussein can essentially force their way into continually winning their elections even if the majority of the people hate them.
@Benjifan2000
Жыл бұрын
@@Compucles Congress could just impeach them.
@rockit6553
Жыл бұрын
Teddy, Harry. Lyndon did not run for 3 terms AS prez. They finished out terms then ran twice for themselves. So in essence, they did not run for 3 terms, only 2. Confusion here.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
They finished out their predecessor's term and then ran for ONE each of their own, not two terms. TR was the first VP acceding to the Presidency to then win an election to the same office in his own right. His single term ran 1905 to 1909.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
Running for three terms is not exactly the same thing as running for a third term.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
@@notvalidcharacters It's no longer his predecessor's term once he's dead. TR took over and served his own partial term, not McKinley's, and was then elected to a full term in addition to that. If he were only acting President, you'd have an argument, but Tyler took care of that issue.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
@@Compucles It was his predecessor's term as soon as his predecessor took office. And the term is finite, measured to exactly four years. If you and I are driving in your car across the country, and you get tired and I take over driving, it doesn't become "my car".
@jb888888888
Жыл бұрын
@@notvalidcharacters The scenario as you proposed it is more like the 25th amendment where the President can temporarily assign the VP to be "acting President" while the President is incapacitated. This happened with Reagan/Bush, Bush/Cheney, and Biden/Harris, when the President was undergoing a medical procedure. If you and Comp are driving in his car across the country and Comp DIES, and Comp has a stipulation in their will that you get the car, then the car is yours.
@vriskfrisk20
Жыл бұрын
If the law is repealed, I want Obama back 🤞🤞🤞
@h.t.awesome3822
Жыл бұрын
“Let’s drone-strike this niga” “Mr Obama wait-“
@titanicbigship
Жыл бұрын
No
@hamburgerhamburgerv2
Жыл бұрын
I mean, an elective monarchy would be cool..
@justina9137
Жыл бұрын
Term limits for president senate and house thank you
@dvferyance
Жыл бұрын
I thought the only 2 that did were TR and FDR. And TR lost and even if he had won his 3rd term would have been non consecutive.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
It wouldn't have been his third term (1912) since he had only won one before. The time between 1901 and 1905 was McKinley's term.
@dvferyance
Жыл бұрын
@@notvalidcharacters But McKinley only served a few months of it. TR served like 3 1/2 years of it so it might as well have been his term.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
@@dvferyance "Might as well", but it wasn't.
@dvferyance
Жыл бұрын
@@notvalidcharacters He may not have been elected to it initially but like 90% of the term was served by Roosevelt not McKinley.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
@@dvferyance Right. And it was McKinley's term he was serving.
@randyking3057
8 ай бұрын
@3:19 choose
@DesertMike
Жыл бұрын
I like the confederate idea of one 6 year term.
@konstantinosnikolakakis8125
Жыл бұрын
One of the few good ideas to come out of the Confederacy, a term limit. Mind you, the Confederate States Constitution doesn’t ban a Vice President who succeeds a president to run for a second term.
@lukeporras1288
Жыл бұрын
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 there were actually quite a few good ideas to come out of the Confederacy. For example, the Post Office had to be entirely self-sufficient after the first several years.
@lawsonj39
Жыл бұрын
@@lukeporras1288 That's not actually such a great idea; it could well deprive people in very out-of-the-way locations from receiving postal service, which is fundamental to creating cohesion in a country. Government is distinct from the private sector: it doesn't have to be run on market principles, and it shouldn't be.
@atulvaibhav5376
Жыл бұрын
@@lawsonj39 Well everything works on market principles otherwise it doesn't work. Every damn thing. Even government must use profit loss analysis. Only difference being that the 'profit' maybe delayed or generational.
@risannd
Жыл бұрын
The confederacy didn't even last that long
@chipsahoy1122
Жыл бұрын
If Rhode vs Wade can be reversed then third term can happen.
@michaelhughes5595
Жыл бұрын
Really ambiguous and poorly constructed post.
@gregmathiesen9313
Жыл бұрын
Andrew Jackson ran three times. He lost to John Quincy Adams in 1824 and won in 1828 and 1832.
@gregmathiesen9313
Жыл бұрын
Also, In the election of 1824, Jackson won the popular vote but did not receive enough electoral votes The election was decided by the House of Representatives. In the election of 1888, Grover Cleveland, who also ran three times, won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote to Benjamin Harrison.
@ECKohns
Жыл бұрын
William Jennings Bryan ran for President 3 times but never won. So did Henry Clay.
@notvalidcharacters
Жыл бұрын
Lots of people ran three times or more. The question here is about serving, not running.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
He ran for President 3 times, but he never ran for a 3rd term.
@BrokenneckYgor
Жыл бұрын
Widely believed Coolidge and Garfield ran fer 3 teems
@lesyankee6129
Жыл бұрын
Not Garfield. He was dead. Died in the first year of his first term (1881).
Took a democrat to screw up tradition. Now, how about term limits for congress?
@Mark-yy2py
Жыл бұрын
@MADVOCATE 000 traditional things like law and order and success through hard work.
@Mark-yy2py
Жыл бұрын
@MADVOCATE 000 what really bugs me was that FDR was on his 4th term when he died. He knew his health was slipping, but ran anyway. Was it to see the war through? Then what? Glad Truman finished it off. Stalin was playing FDR like a fiddle to get almost all of Eastern Europe. Truman knew that and stood up to the Russians...
@Mark-yy2py
Жыл бұрын
@MADVOCATE 000 thanks- raise interesting points. Now term limits for congress!
@UserName-ts3sp
Жыл бұрын
not term limits, government limits. this is so swamp creatures can’t stay in appointed positions or just drop to lower levels of government.
@musicauthority7828
Жыл бұрын
Your full of shit, FDR proved that a person could run for four terms. and be a successful President. and besides he had to be President for four terms. due to WWII, this Country would have lost the war without FDR. as it is this Country barely won the war with his being President. he was an integral part of this Country winning WWII.
@Lego_hq_21
Жыл бұрын
I could’ve sworn FDR served 4 terms
@thepokesannin4434
Жыл бұрын
Elected to 4, but died very early in his 4th. So he didn’t serve a full fourth term
@randygoins6132
Жыл бұрын
@@thepokesannin4434 which led to the 22nd Amendment, limiting future presidents to two four-year terms.
@Auxodium
Жыл бұрын
Multiple terms should be allowed.
@pokepwned
Жыл бұрын
Multiple terms are allowed
@bijeY2K
Жыл бұрын
@@pokepwned Multiple terms by CIRCUMSTANCE is allowed.
@pokepwned
Жыл бұрын
@@bijeY2K multiple: [adjective] consisting of, including, or involving more than one.
@Auxodium
Жыл бұрын
@@pokepwned can only do 2 terms only.
@pokepwned
Жыл бұрын
@@Auxodium 2 > 1
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
Lyndon Johnson NEVER RAN for a third term! He refused and said he would not run even if he were nominated.
@Compucles
Жыл бұрын
That was only after he initially ran but then dropped out early.
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
Жыл бұрын
They need to make another rule: time spent serving as First Lady/Gentleman counts towards time spent as POTUS for purposes of eligibility to run as POTUS. Seriously, why were feminists so keen for the first female POTUS to be someone who's greatest claim to political fame was being a man's wife? If you want a female POTUS, find someone who has had a good track record as Governor first. That goes for male Presidential candidates too. Actually, make that a new amendment: you're only allowed to run for President or VP if you've been a Governor of a State for at least 4 years. Then you can be Senator, Secretary, VP, Speaker or whatever on your run to becoming President. People should be able to see how you've handled leadership first before they hand you the nuclear codes.
@johnshafer7214
Жыл бұрын
I urge caution with this idea. You might keep good people from becoming president. Plus many career politicians are not the best people to run the government. I've seen this in my local government boards. It's a popularity contest unfortunately.
@joeyscerbo7776
Жыл бұрын
Hillary Clinton’s “claim to fame” was not only that she was the wife of President Clinton. By 2016, she was probably the single most qualified candidate to ever hold the nomination.
@johnshafer7214
Жыл бұрын
@@joeyscerbo7776 she was qualified yes. But she may have been what we needed. I didn't like either candidate in the 2016 election. By the way, I disliked Trump and Clinton but voted for Clinton anyway. We still got a terrible president in 2016. We all need to get active and pay attention to politics at all levels. It can't be a spectator sport.
@joeyscerbo7776
Жыл бұрын
@@johnshafer7214 I wholeheartedly agree with those last two statements!
@twiggy1253
Жыл бұрын
I agree with the First Lady situation, but I don’t think you should need any qualifications if the public supports you.
@MTLYev
Жыл бұрын
I find it hard to believe Washington didn't want a second term. There seems to be proof of him initially even having royal ambition
@cervanntes
Жыл бұрын
Washington didn't have royal ambitions but there were some people around him that would have been perfectly happy to see him in that position. Hamilton definitely leaned towards what was essentially an elected monarch for life and even formally proposed the idea. Adams also waffled a bit between wanting something similar to a monarchy and being anti-monarchy, although he definitely wanted formal titles like Highness and all the trappings of royalty.
@paulkoza8652
Жыл бұрын
This clip is loaded with inaccuracies. It is a site that should be eliminated by KZitem. Shame on you.
@itaihalperin529
Жыл бұрын
Like what?
@paulkoza8652
Жыл бұрын
@@itaihalperin529 Teddy Roosevelt was only elected for one term. He became president upon the assassination of McKinley and then was elected in his own right. Calvin Coolidge was elected for only one term. He became president upon the death of Harding. Your facts are misleading and you need to clean them up.
@techwiz81
Жыл бұрын
The limiting of a presidents time in office is dumb. If the populace decides they’ve done a good job and re-elects them, so be it.
@garethbuckeridge6910
Жыл бұрын
He in the UK we have seen 2 Prime Ministers serve 3rd terms in recent years and in both cases things have gone from good to bad very quickly. Thatcher's time ended when an unpopular poll tax was levied on the working classes, while Blair got into bed with GWB and his fairytales about MFD, leading to his downfall. Your 2 term limit is great as good leaders can go out of office on top of their game and bad ones just dissapear.
@techwiz81
Жыл бұрын
@@garethbuckeridge6910 Canada has had two three-term prime ministers in a row, a three-term PM in the 90s, and a four-term PM in the 70s/80s and we’ve been fine. As I said, once the person in power becomes unpopular they are voted out or retire
@mikestefka6668
Жыл бұрын
That's how dictatorship starts.
@garethbuckeridge6910
Жыл бұрын
@@mikestefka6668 Exactly... Thats why Putin & Xi Ping have changed their constitutions from 2 terms to a life time role.
@kalburgy2114
Жыл бұрын
The USA is a country of 330 million people. We shouldn't have to reuse anybody in any elected position.
@Glotch
Жыл бұрын
Seek the Lord Jesus Christ while he still may be found. Everything in this world will pass away, but our spirits will be leaving our bodies and be going up to God's throne for judgement. Everything in this world is meaningless. Please reconsider what you are living for.
@bighand1530
Жыл бұрын
Not that i don’t care for what happens to America and the rest of the world. But regardless of how good or bad America and the rest of the world is running, it’s gonna be nothing compared to eternity.
@FatheredPuma81
Жыл бұрын
Dislike Cba to follow the basics of video creation
@MAGApepe
Жыл бұрын
Trump 2016, 2020, 2024 :)))
@danielmoore2320
Жыл бұрын
He's not liked he barely won the first time
@MAGApepe
Жыл бұрын
@@danielmoore2320 lets go brandon
@danielmoore2320
Жыл бұрын
I'm not a biden supporter and by the way that dumb childish saying means nothing but ignorance
@bighand1530
Жыл бұрын
@@danielmoore2320 Regardless if I like or dislike Joe Biden, not a fan of that chant whatsoever.
@mmjahink
Жыл бұрын
Trump will run 3rd party when he fails to win the Republican nomination in 2024
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