Several chose not to run for reelection; others ran and lost. For example, Lyndon Johnson, who took over after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in , initially tried for a second full term in But during the presidential primaries, he withdrew from consideration, in part because his handling of the war in Vietnam was unpopular and threatened his chances.
By all accounts, Washington would have easily been reelected had he chosen to run a third time. But he rejected public calls to run for a third term as president in Washington was concerned that by staying in office longer, he might send a message that presidents should govern until death or illness drove them away, like a king. The American Revolution had just overthrown a monarchy.
After meeting her husband, Bill, at Yale Law School, she spent This date in was a pivotal moment in U. The results in Florida were unclear by the end of election night and resulted in a recount and a Supreme Court With only 55 percent of the electorate voting, the lowest turnout since , Nixon carried all states but Massachusetts, taking 97 percent of the electoral votes. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
House of Representatives. She is the first woman in the history of the nation to win a seat in the federal Congress. Born and raised on a ranch near Missoula, Montana, Rankin was the daughter of In , The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses due to high winds on November 7, While multiple presidents had sought third terms before, the instability of the times allowed FDR to make a strong case for stability.
Eventually U. Then amendment was then ratified in Still, some had tried. Ulysses S. Grant lost a third campaign in , when James Garfield clinched the Republican nomination. Theodore Roosevelt lost his bid at a third nonconsecutive term in to William Howard Taft he had previously served out the remainder of President William McKinley 's term and then won reelection.
And Woodrow Wilson lost the Democratic nomination in On October 24, the Big Five plus one-half of the other nations had ratified the Charter, and the United Nations was officially born. Was there ever an assassination attempt on FDR? However, after the presidential election of , and before the inauguration in March , FDR nearly lost his life to an assassin's bullet. Joseph Zangara, a thirty-three year old disillusioned Italian immigrant jumped onto a park bench and fired four shots towards FDR's car.
FDR was not hit, but Mayor Cermak was wounded mortally and died a few weeks later. The public and press hailed FDR's courage in refusing to allow his driver to leave the scene before first attending to the wounded Mayor Cermak and driving him to the hospital. Zangara later stated that he did not hate FDR personally, but rather he hated all government officials and all rich people no matter from which country they came.
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