QUESTIONS:
1. President Bush has been re-elected to a second term, as was his predecessor Bill Clinton. When was the last time in history two consecutive Presidents were elected to second terms?
2. John Kerry hinted last week he may run again for the Democratic nomination for President in '08. Who was the last losing Democratic nominee for President to be nominated in the next election?
3. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who announced he was staying on, will soon enter his fifth year in that position. Who was the only chief of staff to serve longer than Card?
4. When was the position of White House chief of staff first created?
5. What is the only state that went for George W. Bush in 2000 that John Kerry carried in '04?
ANSWERS:
1. 1820; James Madison won two terms in 1808 and 1812 and was succeeded by James Monroe, who won two terms in 1816 and 1820.
2. Adlai Stevenson, defeated in 1952, was renominated in 1956 (when he lost again).
3. Sherman Adams, chief of staff to Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953-59.
4. In 1953, when Eisenhower appropriated the term from the Army and named Adams the first holder of the position.
5. New Hampshire.
