FDR was the first, and last, president to win more than two consecutive presidential elections and his exclusive four terms were in part a consequence of timing. 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 Harry Truman , who succeeded FDR after his death, was president when the 22nd Amendment passed and so was exempt from the new rule.
If capitalism was still sick in , democracy was also suffering from various maladies. African Americans and women, despite a number of benefits accrued from the New Deal, still received far fewer of those benefits than white males and, partly as a result, remained at the bottom of the American economic ladder. The New Deal, moreover, did nothing to ensure that rights guaranteed to all Americans via the Constitution, such as the right to vote and the right to a fair trial, were guaranteed to blacks.
If FDR was elected in to fight the Depression, he was largely re-elected in because Americans believed he could guide the nation through a period of treacherous international relations.
FDR correctly understood that Japan and Germany threatened the United States, which in turn endangered the cherished freedoms Americans enjoyed at home. With the onset of war in , FDR ably guided America's efforts to aid its allies without formally entering into hostilities.
When Japan and Germany forced his hand in December , Roosevelt rallied Americans in support of a massive war effort, both at home and abroad. FDR hoped that the war would produce a more secure and peaceful postwar world, and he became a major proponent of a postwar United Nations, in which the United States would be a leading member.
FDR, however, left to his successors the thorny problem of relations with the Soviet Union, which quickly replaced Germany and Japan as America's chief global adversary. Nonetheless, a sea change had occurred in American foreign relations under FDR. By , the United States had become a global power with global responsibilities—and its new leaders both understood this new reality and had the tools at their disposal to shape the world accordingly.
FDR also reshaped the American presidency. Through his "fireside chats," delivered to an audience via the new technology of radio, FDR built a bond between himself and the public—doing much to shape the image of the President as the caretaker of the American people. Under FDR's leadership, the President's duties grew to encompass not only those of the chief executive—as implementer of policy—but also chief legislator—as drafter of policy.
And in trying to design and craft legislation, FDR required a White House staff and set of advisers unlike any seen previously in Washington.
The President now needed a full-time staff devoted to domestic and foreign policies, with expertise in these areas, and a passion for governance. In sum, President Roosevelt greatly increased the responsibilities of his office. Fortunately for his successors, he also enhanced the capacity of the presidency to meet these new responsibilities.
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