Second-term curse
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title:
Second-term curse
text:
The second-term curse is the perceived tendency of second terms of U.S. presidents to be less successful than their first terms. According to the curse, the second terms of U.S. presidents have usually been plagued by a major scandal, policy inertia, some sort of catastrophe, or other problems. There have been twenty-one U.S. presidents who have served a second term, each of whom has faced difficulties attributed to the curse. The legend behind the second-term curse is that after Franklin D. Roo
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description:
Purported curse regarding the second term of U.S. presidents
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-term_curse
date created:
2012-11-09T04:07:42Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T00:57:16Z
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