Grant creates a three-term precedent (1869-1877; 1881-1885)

What if Ulysses S Grant had created a three-term precedent in US politics?

The rule more or less being you can have two consecutive terms and come back for a third but no more?
 
Had Grant any intrest run third term? For me Theodore Roosevelt seems more plausible and still I doubt that there would be very strong third term precedent when two terms precedent has been exist long time even in Grant's era. Perhaps easier way would be that Washington himself decide run third term.
 
With the deal with southern states in ‘77 that they would give all of their electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes and none for Tillman, in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the south,

four years later in ‘81, can Grant rebuild some of the more important parts of Reconstruction in the south and/or avoid some of the worse abuses of a “redeemed” south? I think he can.
 
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The Republicans tried to draft Grant for a third consecutive term but he wasn't interested, largely because of the two-term precedent. He was still enormously popular and had huge coattails for Republican candidates to grab.
 
In 1880 Grant considered going for a third term.
I also read that in Chernow. He was not unwilling as four years before. But he insisted that he had to be asked by the party and didn't really campaign before the republican convention. I suspect though that the presure of the presidency would not be good for Grant's health. He had a cancer, but his last year was a constant agony, because of it. It is not unlikely he wouldn't fulfill the whole term. There's an obvious similarity with Roosevelt here.
A big difference in circumstance is that there wasn't a thread of war, a special circumstance for a third term. Because the principle of two term max has been an unwritten law from the beginning. When it was finally written on paper, the special circumstance was used as a legitimazation of Roosevelt's third term. Now if Grant has three terms, there will probably also be an attempt to legitimize this precedent somehow.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice in consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once in consecutive terms. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress.
Edited Amendment XXII with the assumption that the strange attractors are stronger than the butterflies (same time, same president).
 
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