My last thought for the day: You can’t name a president who’s had a good second term in modern history (well, maybe Coolidge). Wilson was felled by illness. FDR came up with a crazy scheme about packing the Supreme Court. Eisenhower had Sputnik, Sherman Adams’ vicuna coat and Francis Gary Powers. Nixon had Watergate explode. Reagan had Iran Contra. Clinton had Monica. Bush has had…well, you know. FDR recovered with his third term and Reagan managed tax reform in 1986, but you can’t make much else good out of the rest.

So maybe people should be president for only one term. This is probably not practical politics, because if a president announced he’d only run once he’d be a lame duck from the outset and if he announced he wasn’t running for a second term too late he would make it impossible for his own party to field a candidate that could win. So I don’t see how it could work. But it makes for an interesting parlor game nonetheless.