Fourth presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fourth inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of the United States was held on Saturday, January 20, 1945. This was the 40th inauguration and marked the commencement of the fourth and final term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president and the only term of Harry S. Truman as vice president. This is the only time a president was inaugurated for a fourth term; after the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1951, no person can be elected president more than twice. Roosevelt died 82 days into this term, and Truman succeeded to the presidency. Due to austerity measures in effect during World War II, the inauguration was held on the South Portico of the White House, rather than the Capitol. The parade and other festivities were canceled as well.[1] The oath was administered by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone and the subsequent address was one of the shortest on record. This was also the most recent inauguration in which an outgoing vice president swore in his successor, which had previously been the practice. Roosevelt's presidency was, and remains, the longest in American history. See also[edit]
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In the spring of 1944, a few months before D-Day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s limousine arrived at Bethesda Naval Hospital — the same medical complex President Trump was taken to Friday after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. Unable to walk from polio, FDR was lifted from the limo and placed in his wheelchair. “He immediately put up a happy front, playfully waving and wisecracking as he was wheeled into the hospital and down the dimly lit corridor past the swelling crowd that had assembled to see the leader of the Allied armies,” wrote historian Jay Winik in “1944: FDR and the Year that Changed History.” But everything was not okay. The president was dying. Roosevelt, then 62, had been declining for months. His hands trembled. He was fatigued to the point of passing out, one time falling completely out of his wheelchair. As his closest aides tried to keep his decline a secret, blaming his ill health on residual symptoms from the flu, his family demanded he be taken to specialists. At the naval hospital, now called Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, cardiologist Howard Bruenn examined him. “Listening to Roosevelt’s heart and lungs with a stethoscope increased Bruenn’s sense of alarm: as Roosevelt inhaled and exhaled, Bruenn heard rales, telltale rattling or bubbling sounds indicating that fluid was building up inside the president’s lungs,” Winik wrote. “Roosevelt was literally starting the slow process of drowning from within.” The diagnosis: congestive heart failure. Roosevelt, about to embark on a reelection campaign for a fourth term in office, probably had a year to live, the doctor said. The president, a Democrat, decided to run anyway — and to do everything he could to put a healthy face on a dying one. “The war was almost over,” wrote historian Jared Cohen in “Accidental Presidents: Eight Men who Changed America.” “The post-war world would need the right guiding hand. And Roosevelt believed he was essential for both. He believed he could persevere. It’s not quite denial, but rather charging forward through a systematic distortion aimed at generating strength.” From George Washington, who nearly died of the flu in the second year of his presidency, to Grover Cleveland, who had a secret surgery aboard a yacht for mouth cancer, to Woodrow Wilson, who was partially paralyzed by a stroke at the end of his second term, there is a long history of presidents hiding their health crises. While Trump disclosed he’d contracted a potentially life-threatening illness in the final weeks of his reelection campaign, it remains unclear how sick he is. In 1944, Roosevelt was even less forthcoming. Nobody spoke of his illness. In fact, for months after his diagnosis in the spring, Roosevelt didn’t speak of the election at all. “His campaign was a phantom,” Winik wrote. “In public, he said nothing; he did nothing; he barely acknowledged that it was an election year.” The reason, Winik surmises: “shrewdly limiting the time during which the Republicans could make him a target.” But his advisers and Democratic Party bosses were also shrewdly planning on what they knew would be a short term if Roosevelt won. They organized an effort to replace Vice President Henry A. Wallace on the ticket. The president disliked him and Democrats, Winik wrote, thought he was “too intellectual, too liberal, and too impractical.” They quickly zeroed in on Missouri Sen. Harry S. Truman. “Labor leaders liked him, northerners and southerners found him palatable, the industrialists found him supportive,” Cohen wrote. When it came time for the Democractic convention, Roosevelt said he wouldn’t go. Instead, he’d give his acceptance speech over the radio while traveling on his train. There was some political trickery at play due to his health, Winik wrote:
Roosevelt and Truman won, beating New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. That night, Roosevelt sat on the portico of his home in Hyde Park, N.Y., greeting supporters. His well-wishers probably didn’t pay much attention to a detail photographs picked up on of the moment. “His trousers hung in deep folds from his crossed legs, and one ankle was clearly visible,” Winik wrote. “The ankle was also clearly swollen, bulging out over his shoe, a sign of pooling blood and a failing heart. Beneath his fedora, his eyes were rimmed with gray, and the skin below them looked almost bruised; his weary face also looked pinched and hollow.” Five months later, he was dead. Read more Retropolis: How many days into his fourth term did FDR die?This is the only time a president was inaugurated for a fourth term; after the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1951, no person can be elected president more than twice. Roosevelt died 82 days into this term, and Truman succeeded to the presidency.
Did FDR die in his last term?Roosevelt won re-election in the 1944 presidential election on his post-war recovery platform. His physical health began declining during the later war years, and less than three months into his fourth term, Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945.
Did FDR serve 4 full terms?On November 7, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms. Roosevelt rose above personal and political challenges to emerge as one of the nation's most revered and influential presidents.
What president served 4 terms?At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as “the Happy Warrior.” In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York. He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms.
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