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 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ratified 2/27/1951,  limits the term of the President to two elected terms, or one  elected term if he or she filled more than t â¦ wo years of another  President's term.rior to the 22nd Amendment, there was no limit to the number of terms a President could serve.