Hello there, happy holidays, I am the ghost of Christmas past here with an alternative

political history.

That's right, we're back with a little game of Chusher on Adventure, where we imagine

that one thing that happened in our nation's history did not actually happen.

This week, presidential tenure.

What at the 22nd Amendment?

Which limits how many times a president can be elected was never ratified.

In the mid-1940s, after FDR was elected to four terms, many of those running in the mid

terms campaigned on the amendment ID.

But where would our country be if that hadn't happened?

Would Eisenhower or Reagan have served a third term?

Would Bill Clinton be the one who dealt with 9-11?

Barack Obama would he still be president right now?

I'm excited to have American presidential historian Alexis Coe with me today.

She's written, you never forget your first about George Washington and is currently writing

a book about young John F. Kennedy spanning from 1917, his year of his birth to 1957.

Alexis, thank you for joining me here on our What If Alternative History.

It's an honor to be here.

So let's talk about the 22nd Amendment, because it does feel as if its roots were just simply

Republicans frustrated they couldn't win the presidency.

Yes?

To a certain extent, this has been fermenting since the 1787 Constitutional Convention

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