Word: second-term
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...December, we're going to evaluate the system," she said. "If it works well, we will let second-term sophomores sign out until any hour...
...predecessors in the job, was heralded as a well-publicized debater against Khrushchev and sponsored by an immensely popular President. In 1964 the argument of experience and continuity of office will be on the side of Jack Kennedy. Only twice in the 20th century have Presidents lost their second-term bids-Taft lost to Wilson, Hoover to Roosevelt...
...Colorado, Republican Incumbent Gordon Allott rode Nixon's coattails to a second-term victory over Trumanish Democrat (and lieutenant governor) Robert Lee Knous...
...22nd Amendment, restricting U.S. Presidents to two terms, tempts foreign nations to put less and less trust in a second-term President's policies. Khrushchev, in his airy dismissal of the Eisenhower Administration ("Within six or eight months, we shall again meet ... in a new, more favorable atmosphere''), had not missed the point...
...Finished." Clearly, Ike had been giving some deep thought to his role as the first President to be limited (by the 22nd Amendment) to two terms of office. And he seemed, in a way, to be trying to lay down a code of conduct for second-term Presidents who would follow him in office. "I'm not thinking so much of public images as I am the public good," he said in response to another question. "I call your attention again [to the fact] that I cannot be running for anything. I am finished with public life when...