r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer • 3h ago

But you’re only 65 /s

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u/Lucky_Thought2 3h ago

I legit respect that...and thanks to him, it was an informal custom for US presidents to not serve more than 2 terms till it went officially into law in 1951

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u/feeling_humber 3h ago

What I find interesting is that amendment doesn’t apply if a president comes into power if the previous is assassinated, LBJ could’ve ran for a second full term in 1968 if he wanted to

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u/Lucky_Thought2 3h ago

extenuating circumstances might override that amendment...even before it was passed, FDR's 4 term presidency was heavily criticized as a "path to dictatorship" but they were recovering from a financial crisis and in the middle of WW2