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11/5
FDR is First President to Win a Third Term
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Before the US entered World War II or was confidently out of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt defied tradition and precedent set by George Washington by seeking and winning a third term as president of the USA. Four years later, he won a fourth term under the platform of finishing the war.
富兰克林·罗斯福（右）
Why
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FDR’s third term was not illegal, just unusual, but it was argued that these were unusual times: war had broken out in Asia in 1937-38 and then Europe first in Spain in 1936, and while that Civil War was concluded, the German Blitz had taken over half of Europe and Britain was fighting alone. While isolationism was popular in the US, Roosevelt’s platform of maintaining a consistent leadership as well as his continued New Deal efforts won him his third and unprecedented third term. Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in 1947 limiting presidents to two terms or one and more than half of a predecessor’s.
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22nd Amendment, FDR, World War II, Grandfather Clause