QUESTIONS:
1. Former President Clinton recently created a stir when he advocated revising the 22nd Amendment to limit Presidents to two terms consecutively and not for the rest of their lives. Aside from Clinton himself, what Presidents were affected by the 22nd Amendment?
2. Two states deny their governors the right to serve after two four-year terms. Can you name them?
3. Of the five living former Presidents, how many are now permitted to run again for the office under the 22nd Amendment?
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the President who broke the two-term tradition. But prior to FDR, what two Republican Presidents attempted unsuccessfully to break the same tradition?
5. FDR also appeared on national party tickets five times-four as Democratic nominee for President and once as the unsuccessful nominee for Vice President in 1920. Who was the only other American to have been on a national party ticket five times?
ANSWERS:
1. Republicans Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan
2. California and Michigan
3. Republicans Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and Democrat Jimmy Carter
4. Ulysses S. Grant, who attempted to win a third nomination in 1880, and Theodore Roosevelt, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in 1912 and thereupon ran on the Bull Moose Party ticket.
5. Richard Nixon, Republican nominee for Vice President in 1952 and ’56 and for President in 1960, ’68, and ’72.
Pryor’s Dissent from "I.Q."
As he was preparing for hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Alabama Atty. Gen. Bill Pryor nonetheless found time to catch an error in "How’s Your Political I.Q.?" in our May 26th issue. The question was how many justices of the Supreme Court did not previously serve on a lower federal court and the answer we gave was Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Not so, dissented Pryor-correctly. While it would have been correct to say that Rehnquist is the only justice who was not a judge at all, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, as Pryor pointed out to us, was a judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals rather than a federal bench before President Reagan appointed her as the first woman justice of the Supreme Court in 1981. We stand corrected, General.
