washington was the u.s. president who is sometimes credited with establishing the precedent of not seeking more than two terms in office, but was actually just too worn out to run again.
washington was the u.s. president who is sometimes credited with establishing the precedent of not seeking more than two terms in office, but was actually just too worn out to run again.
what u.s. president is sometimes credited with establishing the precedent of not seeking more than two terms in office, but was actually just too worn out to run again?
washington
the twenty-second amendment (1951) limits an elected president to two terms in office, a total of eight years. however, under some circumstances it is possible for an individual to serve more than eight years. although nothing in the original frame of government limited how many presidential terms one could serve, the nation's first president, george washington, declined to run for a third term, suggesting that two terms of four years were enough for any president. this precedent remained an unwritten rule of the presidency until broken by franklin d. roosevelt, who was elected to a third term as president 1940 and in 1944 to a fourth.
constitution of the united states
"i'll sail my ship alone" is a 1950 song written by moon mullican (sometimes credited as "morry burns"), henry bernard (sometimes credited as "henry glover"), lois mann (sometimes credited as "sydney nathan") and henry thurston, and popularized by moon mullican. the song was mullican's most successful release, reaching number one on the country & western chart for a single week, and spending a total of nine months on the chart. "i'll sail my ship alone" crossed over to the pop chart, reaching number seventeen. patsy cline also recorded this song on her last recording session, before she died in a plane crash. it was recorded by jerry lee lewis in 1958 and by many others since such as hank williams, skeets mcdonald, patsy cline, tiny hill, ferlin husky, george jones, slim whitman, patrick wall, mickey gilley and leon russell (as "hank wilson").
i'll sail my ship alone