re: #359 HappyWarrior

I honestly don’t know about FDR’s 4th being a poor idea. From what I understand, he planned to retire after the war was won. It’s a tribute to Truman that he handled the end of the war so well.

The 1944 election is probably the poster child for the idea that a fixed presidential term isn’t always best. FDR certainly didn’t need another four years at that point, but a change in the presidency right then would have been potentially traumatic. We needed him for just a few months longer, and that’s what we got.

(And this is a man who had the luxury today’s presidents don’t - he could disappear to Hyde Park or Georgia and get out of the spotlight as needed.)