WI Ten year US Presidency?

After the passage of the 22nd Amendment it was made so that the maximum term one could serve as President was a ten year term - wherein a Vice President would assume the Presidency halfway through one President's term, then get re-elected twice. How likely is this to happen at any point in American politics (talking historically here)?

Who would be the one to do it?
 
LBJ could have done it, had he continued running and won in 1968.

Boy, LBJ vs. Tricky dick, would have gone down in history as one of the ugliest campaigns.
 
LBJ could have done it, had he continued running and won in 1968.

Boy, LBJ vs. Tricky dick, would have gone down in history as one of the ugliest campaigns.

The main POD for that would be no Vietnam War, because if it is avoided, LBJ retains his illustrious reputation.
 
Is there a plausible possibility of the following:

- Nixon resigns as in OTL
- Soon after, Gerald Ford is assassinated, but he has chosen Church or Udall (are they plausible choices for VP?) as VP already and it has been approved. Let's say December 11, 1974, during a state visit to West Germany, by the RAF. Helmut Schmidt dies in this, too.
- Church or Udall (or whoever gets the Veep) turns out to be so popular (maybe he rescues the economy/it doesn't go downhill in the first place?) gets reelected in 1976 and in 1980, with no Carter Presidency.
- Either there continues to be a Republican President in 1984, but more likely, due to "party fatigue", Democrats get their chance...

Please correct me if this is implausible or even close to ASB. I was not alive at that time!
 
Ford is a Republican. Church and Udall are Democrats. Church is reviled by Republicans for leading an investigation into the CIA. There is no way in hell the Republican convention will endorse Church to be their vice presidential standard-bearer. Udall's chances of being accepted are slightly higher than Church's, but only slightly. This would require an ASB-level event to pull off.
 
This sounds like a rather impractical solution.

If you really want a system like that, you'd need a much earlier POD.
It's not a system, just asking if it could happen once. Realistically it wouldn't be exactly the maximum amount, but you guys know what I mean.

What if we had Eisenhower die in 1954? Then Nixon would serve 54-64?
 
It has been speculated here that had Reagan chosen Ford as his Vice President in 1980 (as he considered) and that Ford then became President upon Reagan dying in the assassination attempt by Hinkley, that Ford would have in fact been eligible to run for election on his own in 1984 and thus theoretically serving a total of more than 10 years as president due to the fact that technically the 22nd amendment does not specifically prohibit a Vice President serving more than two years of two separate presidents terms in office before standing for election on his own
 

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It's not a system, just asking if it could happen once. Realistically it wouldn't be exactly the maximum amount, but you guys know what I mean.

What if we had Eisenhower die in 1954? Then Nixon would serve 54-64?

Eisenhower doesn't have to die. If he followed the standard medical advice of the time he would have resigned the presidency after his heart attack to focus on his recovery. Eisenhower happened to meet a cardiologist who suggested he could keep working while recovering.
 
Reagan dies in office in 1983. George HW Bush becomes president and wins in 1984 and in 1988.

Building a ten-year presidency TL would be difficult. You need the right mix of popular personalities in office and a historical period calling for steady leadership with public support.
 
It has been speculated here that had Reagan chosen Ford as his Vice President in 1980 (as he considered) and that Ford then became President upon Reagan dying in the assassination attempt by Hinkley, that Ford would have in fact been eligible to run for election on his own in 1984 and thus theoretically serving a total of more than 10 years as president due to the fact that technically the 22nd amendment does not specifically prohibit a Vice President serving more than two years of two separate presidents terms in office before standing for election on his own

So in a 10-year span we would have had Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Ford again? That sounds more chaotic that the presidency on 24. Plus it would have made Gerald Ford the Ted McGinley of politics.
 
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