If President Ford won in 1976, was he eligible for reelection in 1980? (user search)
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« on: March 27, 2023, 03:24:14 PM »

No, if you serve more than two years as President, you're only eligible to be elected for one more term.

That's why LBJ was eligible for reelection in 1968 (he had served under two years of Kennedy's term), while Truman would not have been in 1952 had the 22nd amendment applied to him.  (However, it didn't, so Truman was hypothetically eligible to seek two more terms, since the 22nd hadn't yet gone into effect.  Eisenhower, however, was ineligible for a third term.)
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