District Council member Brianne Nadeau: This limbo that we're in because of the congressional rider is untenable, it's a big problem. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad.
FDR was the first and only president to serve more than two terms. Passed by Congress in 1947, and ratified by the states on February 27, 1951, the Twenty-Second Amendment limits an elected president to two terms in office, a total of eight years.
The only U.S. president to serve more than two terms was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died in 1945 during his third term. Six years later, in 1951, Congress passes the 22nd Amendment, which limits the commander-in-chief to just two terms in office.