ROOSEVELT FOR THIRD TERM?
TRADITIONS OF AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE None of the 32 Presidents of the United States has ever served more than two statutory terms of office for four years apiece, consecutively or otherwise.
If at the 1940 Presidential election President Roosevelt decides to present himself as a candidate for the third time he will be running counter to one of the strongest traditions of American political life.
Even the original framers of the American Constitution envisaged the potential danger to the “free institutions” of the country if the same man held Presidential office for repeated terms, and one of their first suggestions was for a seven-year term, vith the incumbent thereafter for ever ineligible for re-election.
Ulysses Grant having served two terms, was prepared to stand for re-election-after a lapse of four years on his return from a triumphal world tour. However, he was finally beaten before nomination, when his opponents taunts of “Caesarism” and “Royal Family” finally swung the Chicago Convention of 1880 against him.—(New York correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph”)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 January 1940, Page 6
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