AHC: Let the same three persons be US president for 24 years, but ...

[Antheus]

... without any consecutive terms! So there has to be a well-explained scenario in which three persons serve two elected four-year terms each, but never a continuous eight-year term.

Like, for example:
A: 1961 - 1965
B: 1965 - 1969
A: 1969 - 1973
C: 1973 - 1977
B: 1977 - 1981
C: 1981 - 1985

You get extra-points if you extend the period to 26 years by making one of them enter the presidency as Vice President, thus ruling for a total of 10 years.
If your scenario takes place before the ratifification of the 22nd Amendment (or prevents it from being implemented), you are also welcome to extend the period even longer by giving them more than two terms.

(I'm sorry if this would be better off in the Alternate Presidents thread, I wasn't sure)

 

[Anarch King of Dipsodes]

If you mean "the same three people as OTL"...

There was only one period of the 20th century when three persons held the Presidency for 24 years. Actually, three possible periods, but they all overlap, and include Franklin Roosevelt:

1929-1953: Hoover, FDR, Truman
1933-1957 or 1937-1951: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower

Wait, one more possibility

1993-2017: Clinton, GW Bush, Obama.

 

[Danishbro]

1961-1964 John F Kennedy
1965-1968 Richard Nixon
1969-1972 Nelson Rockefeller
1973-1976 Richard Nixon
1978-1981 Nelson Rockefeller
1982-1985 John F Kennedy
1986-1993 Robert F Kennedy

JFK is not assassinated, but is wounded. There is plenty of speculation that he is going to step down, and there is rumored to be conflict between him and LBJ. Eventually LBJ is ousted as VP, and JFK declines to run for re-election in 64’, so the democratic ticket is split and Nixon wins. Near the end of Nixon’s first term he announces he will be running as VP on a Rockefeller ticket. Its unclear why, but historians now speculate that someone had dirt on Nixon. Rockefeller declines to run to re-election, and Nixon runs again. After Nixon’s final term Rockefeller is pressured to run again, and wins. At the end of eight years of Republican rule, JFK, who has become immensely popular, runs for re-election and handily wins. Just for fun... but after JFK, his brother Robert runs and serves two terms giving us 12 years of Kennedy rule. It’d be interesting to see who would finish the 90’s and into the 21th century.

 

[Antheus]

If you mean "the same three people as OTL"...

No, I didn't mean "the same three people as OTL". It doesn't matter if they were president IOTL or not. "The same three people" was just my (overly convoluted?) way to express that, within a span of 24 years, it's always one of those three who is in power. I'm sorry, English is not my mothertongue.

Is there a way to edit the name of the thread? Than I could rewrite it in a less misleading way.

 

[Antheus]

1961-1964 John F Kennedy
1965-1968 Richard Nixon
1969-1972 Nelson Rockefeller
1973-1976 Richard Nixon
1978-1981 Nelson Rockefeller
1982-1985 John F Kennedy
1986-1993 Robert F Kennedy

Bravo, that's exactly the sort of thing I had in mind (but wasn't qualified enough to deliver myself )

... at the end of eight years of Republican rule ...

Isn't it 16 years, though?

 

[SandroPertini98]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1929-1933 D
Herbert Clark Hoover 1933-1937 R
Douglas McArthur 1937-1941 Mil
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1941-1945 D
Herbert Clark Hoover 1945-1949 R
Douglas MacArthur 1949-1953 R

So James Cox wins in 1920 and FDR succeeded him in 1928. During the Great Depression he manages the crisis better then OTL Hoover but he pays the price when he is defeated by Hoover himself in 1932. When the recession get worst MacArthur declares martial law to suppress Communist disorders and runs as independent with the promise to restore order and win. In 1940 FDR cames back to reunite political opposition to MacArthur in a National Union ticket with Wendell Wilkie and wins. In 1944 Roosevelt retires in favor of his VP to become first UN General Secretary but Wilkie's death allows to Hoover to run again and win. In 1948 MacArthur runs again in a Anti-Communist Platform and wins.

 

[oberdada]

What about:
Roosevelt 1905 (1901)
Taft 1909
Wilson 1913 ( defeating incumbent Taft and Progressive La Follette)
Roosevelt 1917 ( lives a bit longer than OTL, Not dying in office)
Wilson 1921 ( comeback against a handpicked Roosevelt Republican)
Taft 1925 (Republican Party swings back )

 

[David T]

I'll do you one better--the same two people:

1881-1885 James Garfield (in this TL he isn't assassinated)
1885-1889 Grover Cleveland
1889-1893 James Garfield
1893-1897 Grover Cleveland
1897-1901 James Garfield (defeats William Jennings Bryan)
1901-1905 Grover Cleveland (revolt in the Democratic Party against Bryan--who "can't win"--happens four years earlier than in OTL. Cleveland manages to unite Democrats around anti-imperialism issue.)

Remember that at this time many people thought the no-third-term tradition only applied to consecutive terms.

 

[Antheus]

I present to you the ridiculously extended rule of old white men:

Presidents of the United States, 2011 - 2037

45. Joe Biden 2011 - 2013

Obama is assassinated in 2011 and Biden assumes the presidency. His approval rating is quite low (mostly because people can't get over the loss of Obama), so he declines to run in 2012.

46. Donald Trump 2013 - 2017

Trump's shocking win over democratic nominee Hillary Clinton radicalizes the Democratic base, leading to Sen. Bernie Sanders' nomination in 2016.

47. Bernie Sanders 2017 - 2021

Sanders' socialist policies alienate the democratic establishment, inspiring Biden to return and challenge Sanders in the 2020 primaries.

48. Joe Biden 2021 - 2025

Biden decides to run for reelection. The progressive wing is still upset about his "betrayal" of Sanders. That's why Tulsi Gabbard runs as a third-party candidate in 2024.

49. Donald Trump 2025 - 2029

Once again, Trump wins the nomination of an increasingly shattered republican party. He is only elected president because the Democratic vote is split between Biden and Gabbard.

50. Bernie Sanders 2029 - 2031

Having learnt from the consequences of their inner-party quarrels, the Democrats promise to "stand united" in the '28 elections. To prove this new unity, the former "establishment dems" now support the still very popular Sanders in finishing his legacy, while Sanders picks his former opponent Biden as running mate.

51. Joe Biden 2031 - 2037

When Sanders dies from a stroke at age 90, Biden finds himself in the White House for the third time. Senile stubbornness makes him run for reelection a last time, which he surprisingly wins. He dies ten days after finally leaving office at the age of 95. Having ruled for 12 years in total while still being elected president only twice, he found his unique way of getting around the 22nd Amendment.