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78. Also remind them it was a Republican that proposed term limits...

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 01:28 PM

Sep 2013

In the 1944 election, during World War II, Roosevelt won a fourth term but suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died in office the following year. Thus, Franklin Roosevelt was the only President to have served more than two terms. Near the end of the 1944 campaign, Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey, the governor of New York, announced support of an amendment that would limit future presidents to two terms. According to Dewey, "Four terms, or sixteen years, is the most dangerous threat to our freedom ever proposed."[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

So Repub Dewey, seeing he was losing, suggests an amendment that might have helped him win.

I seem to remember these same sons-of-bitches jovially suggesting that the 22nd Amendment be repealed so Reagan could run for a third term. So much for "the most dangerous threat to our freedom ever proposed."

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Holy crap! Franklin Roosevelt! Holy freakin' crap! [View all] FredStembottom Sep 2013 OP

saw it also and was surprised rurallib Sep 2013 #1

Cool. But he won 4 terms... truebluegreen Sep 2013 #2

Thanks for the save. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #3

No prob. truebluegreen Sep 2013 #6

It's how soon he was gone in #4 that.. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #10

I guessed that. truebluegreen Sep 2013 #23

Excellent use of this fact. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #31

Also remind them it was a Republican that proposed term limits... KansDem Sep 2013 #78

Yes, typical in both instances--only dangerous when our side does it. truebluegreen Sep 2013 #82

truebluegreen Diclotican Sep 2013 #90

Here! 1941 SOTU, The Four Freedoms Speech. longship Sep 2013 #4

I have these speeches on my "iPod". FredStembottom Sep 2013 #5

Yup! I also have a huge repository of Churchill speeches. longship Sep 2013 #9

Well, the path that Churchill took after WWIi FredStembottom Sep 2013 #11

Well, he was a conservative. longship Sep 2013 #14

Will read. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #34

I think it's safe to say FDR cooled on Churchill when it was Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #46

That's the current story, as far as I've read. longship Sep 2013 #53

I agree with your assessment of Churchill. Right man for the times. Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #66

Maybe this is where Limpballs got the "one hand tied behind...back" line. nt morningglory Sep 2013 #69

Hey Fred. Is THIS the commercial you saw? NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #7

That's it. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #8

Well, yeah--gotta make room for Saint Ronnie........-- lastlib Sep 2013 #12

If it wasn't in the script.... AnneD Sep 2013 #72

you got that right!! lastlib Sep 2013 #73

"(how do I get "BARF" in big letters, the size of Kilimanjaro, on here??)" Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #87

Didn't really notice, but just recently have begun to realize how little I knew about him, rwsanders Sep 2013 #22

PBS American Experience did a first rate bio. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #35

Thanks! I'll definitely look for this one. My wife and I just finished one on Rachel Carson... rwsanders Sep 2013 #103

FDR has been disappeared by Public School due to infiltration by the National Chamber of Commerce. Rain Mcloud Sep 2013 #92

Interesting stories! rwsanders Sep 2013 #104

And now he's hawking for Google. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #28

or Google is hawking for him, one thing is for sure the corporate media damn sure isn't. Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #36

I wish to god that the POTUS was hawking for him. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #39

No flames from me, I do as well, but's that's also an implicit commentary on how powerful Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #41

+1 Myrina Sep 2013 #75

thanks for pointing that out. mopinko Sep 2013 #70

Yes, considering that in 2009, historians ranked FDR as 2nd or 3rd Greatest President in American whathehell Sep 2013 #91

Cute spot. xfundy Sep 2013 #13

If you think FDR's been scrubbed, what about his third term veep? Smarmie Doofus Sep 2013 #33

Point taken. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #37

An old DU favorite: Sequoia Sep 2013 #79

Very sweet. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2013 #15

excellent gopiscrap Sep 2013 #16

I live in the Hudson Valley... Historic NY Sep 2013 #17

I love visiting Hyde Park and Val Kill MannyGoldstein Sep 2013 #19

I grew up in Dutchess County! PennsylvaniaMatt Sep 2013 #21

The Hudson Valley is so indescribably beautiful... dorkzilla Sep 2013 #32

That painting: Norman Rockwell wasn't so cornball after all. Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #48

FDR's spirit is alive and well, MannyGoldstein Sep 2013 #18

One of the things I am most proud of when it comes to ancestors... PennsylvaniaMatt Sep 2013 #20

You should be proud! dorkzilla Sep 2013 #24

Absolutely! PennsylvaniaMatt Sep 2013 #26

How amazing! dorkzilla Sep 2013 #29

Beautiful to have such a memory. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #44

And FDR carried most of the South, most of the time. Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #49

I Remember FDR Cheviteau Sep 2013 #81

Great perspective! annabanana Sep 2013 #98

Huh. Sounds pretty much exactly like an old CompuServ ad from the 90s Recursion Sep 2013 #25

I think it high time we resurrect FDR dorkzilla Sep 2013 #27

Absolutely. whathehell Sep 2013 #96

That's a subtle, yet powerful form of Internet activism. Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #30

Have any of y'all ever been to Hualapai Mountain County Park? Nevernose Sep 2013 #38

My Dad's life may have been saved by FDR and the CCC LongTomH Sep 2013 #40

Ironically, my granddad had no idea there was a depression Nevernose Sep 2013 #47

He passed from this life in 1978 LongTomH Sep 2013 #52

my dad`s ccc/wpa boss was reagan`s dad... madrchsod Sep 2013 #59

My great grandfather ran a CCC operation... Blanks Sep 2013 #94

Not just the nation. Shemp Howard Sep 2013 #43

They were indeed. Epic drinking bouts, I am told. Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #50

Proof that a progressive and a conservative can work together. Shemp Howard Sep 2013 #55

PBS has been running a series ANOIS Sep 2013 #54

Teddy Roosevelt is generally considered the father.. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #57

That's what I thought, but ANOIS Sep 2013 #74

Good. I wanted to be clear on what you meant. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #85

Thanks for the heads up. Wonder if there will be fair & balanced counter ads. SleeplessinSoCal Sep 2013 #42

I dread a possible Google/Reagan ad. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #45

we all could use an FDR brushup proud patriot Sep 2013 #51

K & R defacto7 Sep 2013 #56

If You're An FDR Fan . . FairWinds Sep 2013 #58

And the movie "Warm Springs" FredStembottom Sep 2013 #61

I haven't heard of that one and will have to look for it. kentauros Sep 2013 #77

Oh my gosh..... Forgot about S at C. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #84

I saw it on TCM kentauros Sep 2013 #86

VIDEO alp227 Sep 2013 #60

The excerpts they've chosen are incredibly appropriate, nyquil_man Sep 2013 #62

PBS Hosts "FDR: An American Experience" blogslut Sep 2013 #63

Thanks for the link. I've seen it but will watch again. If only every American would see it. Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2013 #64

K&R! Enthusiast Sep 2013 #65

K&R - I was just as suprised as you! It was wonderful to see. myrna minx Sep 2013 #67

Because I have a Master's in military history LibertyLover Sep 2013 #68

K&R for FDR! beerandjesus Sep 2013 #71

I thought JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #76

I love that ad ... ms liberty Sep 2013 #80

The Generation before me Cryptoad Sep 2013 #83

These days "Populism" is considered to be political suicide by the idiots in the Beltway.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #88

FredStembottom Diclotican Sep 2013 #89

I, too doubt kids today know much about him or that era. FredStembottom Sep 2013 #97

FredStembottom Diclotican Sep 2013 #99

Just the fact that he did it all from a wheelchair FredStembottom Sep 2013 #101

FredStembottom Diclotican Sep 2013 #102

FDR ...we need you now! L0oniX Sep 2013 #93

_the_enemy_ FiveGoodMen Sep 2013 #100

He was no Reagan. leveymg Sep 2013 #95