FDR wins an unprecedented 4th term and is the first and only president to serve more than 2 terms. This prompted Congress to pass the 22nd amendment 1947 to limit the president to two consecutive terms. Until this point, 2 terms had been either voluntarily following George Washington’s example, or failed attempts at a 3rd term (T. Roosevelt ran for a 3rd term but lost in 1912). He was president during two of America’s worst crisis periods: The Great Depression and World War II.
Roosevelt pioneered the 100-day yardstick that measures a President’s effectiveness in office soon after elected. "The first hundred days of the New Deal have served as a model for future presidents of bold leadership and executive-legislative harmony," said Anthony Badger in his book “FDR: The First Hundred Days.”
He was first elected in the fourth year of a depression that was affecting countries the world over. He called Congress into a special session and kept them busy for three months, passing what is called his Alphabet Soup of programs and bills to get America working, such as the WPA, CWA, NRA (Nat’l Recovery Administration), TVA, SEC, FHA, PWA, NLRB, and more.
That first year, “Roosevelt got 15 major bills through Congress in his first 100 days. "Congress doesn't pass legislation anymore—they just wave at the bills as they go by," said humorist Will Rogers.”
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