regent
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This is why I laugh when people tell me how "great" FDR was
Both historians, and the people that lived through the Great Depression, indicate that FDR was great. The people voted for FDR four times in a row, and the historians have never rated FDR less than one of the three greatest presidents, and recently, as America's greatest.
And when he died, the people immediately passed an amendment to the Constitution to prevent anyone from being elected President 4 times. Why did they do that if he was so great?
The people didn't pass that amendment conservative's passed it. Perhaps Republicans wanted FDR to have the glory of being the only president elected for more than two terms.
The Republicans realized that no Republican president could be elected three times so....
Republicans were getting worried that another Democrat would come along and run for five terms.
In reality it was probably a spite amendment, and with Ike some Repubicans realized what they had done.