October 1999

Why Presidents Have Lousy Second Terms

By Frederic D. Schwarz

(The editor of AmericanHeritage.com asked for our thoughts on why Presidents’ second terms so often go badly, and whether it has anything to do with the 22nd Amendment, which limits them to two terms.)

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