#150 Short lived Presidents (Part 2)
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
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This week we’re discussing US Presidents who, through various interventions of fate, weren’t actually President for any great length of time. We’ve got poor old Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), unlucky James Garfield (1831-1881) and let’s not forget Warren G. Harding (1865-1923).
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
| 0:06.4 | plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access |
| 0:11.9 | to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water |
| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up for all your options you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time hello and welcome back to part two on our episode on short-lived presidents Thank you. Presidents. |
| 0:51.0 | Okay. Pop Quiz, who is the shortest-lived Prime Minister in British history? |
| 0:52.2 | Well, it's going to be Liz Truss, surely. |
| 0:56.9 | It is Liz Truss. Second is George Canning, 119 days. |
| 0:58.4 | I remember at one point they were saying, |
| 1:02.8 | is it going to be a shorter term than George Canning? |
| 1:05.0 | She absolutely smashed his record. |
| 1:07.5 | What would she, like, 48 days? |
| 1:07.9 | Some of that. |
| 1:11.4 | 49 days, yeah, and he was 119 days. And then the Viscount Godrich in her 144. |
| 1:15.0 | She destroyed his record. |
| 1:18.7 | So I'm going to discuss now, Zachary Taylor. |
| 1:21.5 | And whoever knows the longest presidency in American history |
| 1:23.8 | is Franklin D. Roosevelt in office from the 4th of March 1933 till his death on the 12th of April |
| 1:29.9 | 1945, total of 4,423 days. And then they changed the rules, didn't they? So his nearest rival, |
| 1:37.8 | change the constitution, all of whom serve as two complete terms, include more contemporary |
| 1:43.0 | people, George W. Bush did two, |
| 1:45.5 | Bill Clinton saved two terms, Barack Obama saved two terms. What do you think, by the way, |
| 1:50.6 | will happen with Trump? Do you think Trump will force a third term, or do you think he will end? |
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