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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: FDR Wants More (1940)
Description: It’s July 11th. This day in 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a conversation with a supreme court justice to explore whether it would be legal for him to run for a third term.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the rationale for seeking another four years — and another four years after that — plus how the convention of two-term presidencies eventually became established law.
Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory
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