Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...small group of friends and White House employes. The night was hot, with the dull, moist heat of Washington midsummer that settles like a tangible weight on the city. The President took off his coat and in a 32-minute speech accepted the Democratic nomination for a Third Term...
...other President had faced-that of explaining why he believed it wise and necessary to break a tradition that had lasted through 151 turbulent years of U. S. political life. The step that Washington had refused to take he was at the point of taking; the rejection of the Third Term that Jefferson had elevated into a principle of government he was now prepared to challenge. His task was to answer the historic objections to the Third Term-the tenet of democracy which holds that the great reservoir of democratically trained citizens can always yield new leaders; that one danger...
Silence. Years ago Washington correspondents began pressing President Roosevelt about his Third Term intentions, were put off with answers that were sometimes jovial, often sarcastic. The President had told his questioners to put on the dunce cap, to stand in the corner, to cease speculating, to drop sophomoric queries, that his intentions would be revealed at a time and place of his own choosing...
Last week, as the Democratic Convention got under way, veteran, grey-haired Correspondent Merwin Browne asked at a press conference. "I would like to ask Mr. President, in all honesty and sincerity, why you have refrained from making known your position on the Third Term issue." Correspondent Browne had written and rewritten his question so that it would not provoke a wisecracking answer; had memorized it so that he would not fumble the asking. Replied the President: let the newspapermen listen to the Convention broadcast; they would hear Senator Barkley make an announcement for the President when the Convention...
While the candidacies of Jim Farley, Jack Garner and Millard Tydings ran their brief, unhappy course, while the anti-Third Term resolution was booed to the flag-draped rafters, while delegation after delegation said its say for Franklin Roosevelt, the President played host to a radio party of friends and trusted helpers. In the historic study that is saturated with the memories of critical scenes and critical decisions, he sat attentive beneath a painting of John Paul Jones...