I watched this video and had my son watch it with me again. I knew they made changes, but I had no idea how many and how fast. Despite all the useless eaters employed by our federal government, we still have centers of excellence and the White staff is simply world class in everything they do.
The 4 year term for the President was written into the Constitution after independence. Up until after World War 2, they could serve as many terms as they could be elected to, Franklin Roosevelt won 4 terms. After his death, an amendment to the constitution was passed that limited the president to 2 terms.
I thought that sounded wrong to me. I grew up in DC and my stepfather's law office was around the corner from Ford's Theater. Sometimes I'd help out, and frequently went into the Petersen house to pass time (I never found Ford's Theater that interesting). It's also a place you take people when they visit town.
@BM-hb2mr no it isn't, it was the bed from the White House's VIP guest room under Lincoln, the bed he died in is now in the Chicago History Museum, it's a much plainer, simpler design. There's no proof he ever actually slept in the one in the Lincoln bedroom, it was just in the White House when he was president
It's Lincolns bed room. According to white house history. Org... suite of bedroom furniture acquired by the president's wife Mary Todd Lincoln in 1861.
I am a ret. US Navy Sailor. I have served with two gentleman that started as Mess specialist/Culnary specialist. Both of them went on to cook for the White House. Of course they both rose in rank quickly. One even lead the US Navys competition team that would go up against all the other branches and won multiple times.
The bunker is underneath the East Wing, not the main part of the house, the modern East Wing itself was built as a cover story for the bunker construction during WWII
When John Adams came into the newly built White House as the second President, his wife Abigail hung the laundry to dry in the public East Room. In 1882 President Chester Arthur actually emptied the White House on the front lawn and had a yard sale - relinquishing many mementos from the Lincoln years. First Lady Jackie Kennedy tracked down and returned a lot of missing historical items when she served in the 60s.
The Presidents desk changes. There are 6 different ones, although the last 5 or 6 have used to same one. It is called "The Resolute Desk". It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. (and is a co-star in the movie "National Treasure").
The staffer that found Hillary's dress, and thus prevented her from going out in her birthday suit, was given the highest civilian award for service to the USA, for not putting us through that.
each term for a president is 4 years, you can run for a second 4 year term. If you win the second term, it will be your last, as the constitution has an amendment stating this. The reason is to prevent one person from becoming a dictator
it is to keep a political party from dominating the system, besides after FDR was elected 4 times congress was afraid his ghost would seek re-election, seriously, they are stupid at the capitol
The President is limited to 2 four year terms if they decide to run again. Franklin Roosevelt served 4 terms, each 4 years. The 22 Amendmentof the Constitution limited the President to the 2 terms in March 1947.
It became effective with Dwight Eisenhower in 1953, the 22nd Amendment expressly did not apply to the president currently in office at time of ratification, so Harry Truman was constitutionally the last President not to have a term limit, not that it made any difference in his case
If they serve a partial term of less than 2 years they can serve 2 full terms. If they serve a partial term of 2 years plus, then they can only serve 1 full term.
The Lincoln Bedroom has not been untouched since 1865, for one thing, it wasn't a bedroom in 1865, it was Lincoln's office and conference room, for another, the White House was totally gutted and rebuilt in the early 1950s, so literally nothing inside it could possibly be untouched from the 19th century, its a mid 20th century building inside a late 18th century shell. The bed was in the White House when Lincoln was President, but it was actually used in the primary guest bedroom for visiting dignitaries, not the president's bedroom. The wallpaper, carpet, and curtains were installed during George W. Bush's administration in the 2000s in order to replicate what was in the room in the 1860s, but it didn't look like that until then.
Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater, several blocks away from the White House. The gun was a derringer, and fairly low powered. Lincoln took several hours to die. That assassination led to the sick joke: Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
The nuclear football doesn't actually have the codes for nukes, it has a sequence of characters among which are the actual codes that only the president and nuclear command know. It's done like this so that others can't identify the codes and so that the president only has to be able to recognize the code rather than perfectly memorize it.
You can still tour the Whitehouse and Capitol Hill (Congress). If you go to DC, stop by the National Cathedral when the choir is rehearsing. It will make you cry.
DUDE, my sister went to Washington DC for a convention, she is a substance abuse counselor. BUT because she has DUI's on her record, they won't let her in as a guest. She couldn't go on the tour.
Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head, but was still breathing until he finally passed the next morning. I don't think the bullet size was very large.
Some are of the opinion his doctor killed him. Modern medicine could have saved him. Booth shot him with a Derringer that used a ball shot which made a dime sized hole.
@@th3geoffypoo And some want to paint it black after it cracked during BO's terms and rename it the BO monument too. The Democrats really do get upset they lack many monuments. JFK got a memorial flame after being murdered under his own VP's orders with the CIA doing the op and USSS setting him up with FBI for cleanup just like Butler.
The Lincoln Bedroom is a bit of fiction. Lincoln didn't die in that room. It wasn't his bedroom either, but it was his study. He actually died in a rooming house across the street from Ford's Theater where had been shot.
The White House was designed by Irish-born James Hodan. In 1814, during the War Of 1812, the White House was burned down and rebuilt after British soldiers set fire to it.
then gutted to the limestone shell in the 50s this is what the inside looked like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Reconstruction#/media/File:The_Shell_of_the_White_House_during_the_Renovation-05-17-1950.jpg
Its only 2, 4 year terms because it should never be the case where it takes mass casualties to get the guy out of office. We just have to wait 4 years.
So Presidents can stay in office for up to 10 years, however it's not always been this way. At first, there were no term limits. As long as you won the vote, you stayed President. HOWEVER, our first President, George Washington, set the precedent that a President would not seek re-election after their second term. This continued until Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. FDR, as he is known, was elected for a third term in 1940, and a fourth term in 1944. After this, in 1951, The 22nd Amendment was enacted, limiting Presidents to 2 terms. Now you may be asking, "But Ahnalee, you said a President could serve for 10 years. Two terms in office is only 8." And I would respond with "well done you're paying attention!" If, for some reason, the President becomes incapacitated, either by being removed from office, dying in office, or resignation, the Vice President automatically fills the void. However, the Vice President is only considered to have served a full term if they have served more than 2 years as President. If they serve over the 2 year mark, they can only run for President one more time. If they serve under the 2 year mark, then they can run for 2 more terms as President. Add that up, and it's a maximum of 10 years as President.
Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.) is the only sitting U.S. president to have been injured in an assassination attempt. Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Donald Trump (2024, by Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh) are the only two former presidents to be injured in an assassination attempt. However, Donald Trump was re-elected later in 2024. In all of these cases, the attacker's weapon was a firearm, and all the subjects were male. Gerald Ford experienced two attempted assassinations with a woman as the assailant.
Oswald shot no one his gun had a steel bolt welded inside catching his round you are siting the Warren C. Coverup led by two that were in the planning (Hoover and Dulles) FBI & CIA heads under orders from the VP before and POTUS after LBJ. It also LBJ who ordered the top removed, agents pulled off the car and announced the route in advance violating 3 rules even then of the USSS. You could also add the two failed attempts by Treasury to murder sitting President A. Jackson that failed due to damp powder in the the Capitol and a River Fairy. Or the poisoning of Z. Taylor. Also at least 5 attempts were made on Trump between Butler and reclaiming the office. One left people on stage blinded or other ailments similar to Havana Syndrome (EM/CHEM attack) also another was stopped just short of a rally and the last Iranian one was stopped in the planning stages.
In addition to this pretty much every president since Nixon has had at least one assassination plots against them. Most have had multiple with Obama having the most. If i remember correctly. Something tells me Trump may pass him though. He's already had 9, I believe, and Obama had 11 or 12 I think. 🤔
For completeness, four presidents have also died in office from natural causes: William Henry Harrison, died after one month in office; Zachary Taylor, died after 16 months in office; Warren G Harding, died after 2 years and 5 months in office; Franklin Roosevelt, died a little over one month into his fourth term.
Thank you Adam for not taking a stance as I truly come here to get away from political bickering. Opinions are like a holes everyone has one but we don't need to be witness to it.
Been there! It’s pretty impressive. A pool is not a bad idea. One of our presidents used to bathe naked in the Potomac daily. A crowd would rise to watch him, lol.
They turned the basement pool into the White House Press room. Perhaps they should turn it back into a pool and not actually tell the press corps until they are up to their necks, LOL.
There is a pool. It is on the back side of the WhiteHouse by the Oval Office. You can see it on Google Maps and I have been there when I was stationed at Ft. Myers.
The bullet didn't initially kill Lincoln. Surviving "headshots" isn't actually totally uncommon, if it's the right caliber and enters your head and the right angle. He was unconscious, basically a vegetable for about 8 hours and then finally died.
It also didn't help the Doctors at the time probed the wound several times and even added a second channel as bad as the bullet's. Cousin Abe's doctors were elder ones that had limited active recent practice that skills had been passed that point by the average army medics for treating such.
They search for bugs and scan and replace everything -- rugs, drapes wall pictures, plants, furniture and busts. Welcome bacK Wnston Churchill. Friends forever.
Attending the Ford’s Theater and museum was wonderful, We sat directly across from Lincoln’s booth (no pun intended). He died across the street. Maybe they brought the bed from there to the White House, but I doubt it. The building (thinking it was a boarding house back then) was closed so I don’t know if the bed was still there or a replica was added. I would imagine Lincoln’s bed at the WH was simply his bed for when he was POTUS. After FDR was in office for so long (4 terms), term limits were instated. They are talking about that with Congressional offices.
IMHO, There should be term limits for Representatives and Senators. There should also be an age maximum put in place. You have to be 25 to be a representative, 30 for Senator and 35 for President. Should make it were you must assume office before your 56th birthday. That way your gone before 60 and we stop the Alzheimer patients from being in office. I would set Representatives to 4 ( 2 year) terms and Senators to 2 (6 year)terms . Also place a maximum of 20 years total. but, That all is just my opinion.
US Presidents use to not have term limits, but after Franklin D Roosevelt held office for most of four consecutive terms (died during 4th of office) a decision was made to alter the terms of the Presidency. The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution only allows an individual to serve two terms (total of 8 years) of office of four years each.
An indoor pool was built in 1938/39 for Roosevelt that he used because he suffered from polio. In 1979 (?) an outdoor pool was built for Gerald Ford and as far as I know, it is still there.
It wasn't filled, it was just covered over to create the press briefing room in 1970, the pool basin is still there underneath the floor, accessible through a trap door, the idea was to make it capable of being turned back into a pool easily if a future president desired, but its never happened
Look, if we are being honest, we just like doing stuff like this. The people of America appreciate a well oiled machine, and so rarely is it the case domestically.
As a commercial carpenter you’d be amazed how quickly certain things can be accomplished. I’ve been on new construction hospitals where every patient room had a prefab bathroom that got craned in.
@@AnaFrost-k9k The bowling alley is still there, its under the North Portico (the main facade facing Pennsylvania Avenue), the indoor pool was covered over to create the press room (in the colonnade structure linking the West Wing to the central part of the house)
4 Years ... the original plan was that Representatives, Senators and the President were going to be regular people, not politicians. There was no plan for career politicians or political parties. You were asking a regular guy to leave his job/work/company for 4 years.
The Lincoln bedroom has his bed. The death bed is at a museum in Chicago. It's a Jenny Lind style bed from the boarding house across the street from the theater. I think it's called the Chicago History Museum. I've been there as a kid.
It isn't actually Lincoln's bed, it was Lincoln's primary guest bed, it was in the state guest room during Lincoln's administration, not the presidential bedroom
Many times, staff stays for the next administration. They know the house better than the President and family does. I've heard the background checks for White House Chef is crazy. So not only do you have to be good at cooking, but you have to have a spotless record.
He also claims to be a born-again Christian... what's your point about Churchill? Trump is not a student of History. Now Melania... That one's very underestimated.
Adam I just that heard Northern Ireland is getting a Chic Fil-Fil-A can't wait to see you do a video on it they were established close to me and I think you'll love it
Caesar Chavez was a socialist. Possibly a communist, but that's debatable. But socialism lines up with the views of people in the Biden administration so it makes more sense that this political viewpoint, as well as catering to hispanic voters, was his actual motivation for having that bust in the office.
I took a White House tour back in the 1980s. I have been in the same room with several presidents. Obama and Bush Jr stood 20 feet from me at the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. Bush and Obama stood behind a bullet proof glass wall because we were outdoors.
Adam, most people don't realize that the White House Complex is more than just The Residence. There are FOUR buildings in the whole complex. In addition to The Residence, there are the East Wing [offices]; The West Wing [location of The Oval Office]; and The Executive Office Building. BTW, yes, there are secret rooms and tunnels under the complex.
I’m pretty sure Franklin Roosevelt passed not long after his inauguration in April of 1946, so they decided “let’s not have anyone else die during the presidency” and put limited terms served.
Was smiling so hard last night as he was signing the executive orders. Disappointed that there weren't any for carrying firearms, but that'll probably take an act of congress.
I'm pretty sure SCOTUS has made it pretty clear that, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED." Of course, living in super-red states I don't know what blue states do to make a run-a-round to the Constitution.
It was decided that Preisdents would serve for four years in 1789 when The Constitution was ratified. Under the Articles of Confederation, it was a single year term.
Adam, there was an indoor pool, but it was decked over to build a Press Room. He's wrong about Reagan wanting a pool. Gerald Ford already had an outdoor pool built in 1975.
When Thomas Jefferson was president from 1801 to 1809, there was no fence around the White House, and a man walked into the White House from the street because he wanted to talk to President Jefferson about an issue. Jefferson was eating in the dining room, and the man walked right in. Jefferson talked with him, and the man left. 😂
You only get 2. 4 year terms.If you were a vice president the rest of the 1st term you finished doesn't count against you running 2 more times.The main reasons for the 2 term limit is one party gets too powerful and its too hard for another party to have a chance.Also,the 1 st president said it shouldn't be a life long job
No, the majority of Americans voted for Donald Trump and it was way too big to rig for the anti- American, criminal Obiden administration! They tried though but it did not work!
I worked for the daughter in law of Bill Clinton's secretary, she oversaw much of the transition team both incoming and outgoing. Sweet lady and very proper/cultured. She said it was a scary time trying to meet the deadline.
The 4 Years is The Term because President George Washington Saw it as Long Enough to Do Changes but also not Allow for Politicians to be like a Dictator.Yes the President can Run for 2 Terms but that's the limit.
There are actually 2 swimming pools at the White House there is one outside that is clearly visible on Google Earth and the press room has a pool under the floor except they did remodel it a couple of years ago and they may of filled it
Just so you know it rarely includes major changes to the whole building but normally certain rooms such as the sleeping quarters and the Oval office. Additional changes may take place over time after often with other key events. A President can do up to 8 years in office and no you are not able to because you must be born a US Citizen not just become one. Foreign born citizens can hold any other offices, including those in the line to become President if others die or removed. If you are in that line though it would bump to the next in order. After the Speaker and Senate Pro Temp it works through the various cabinet secretaries. When Senator Byrd (Former Senate Pro Temp) died I asked for the day off to avoid town (Charleston WV) while everyone in that line down to the S. of State Clinton (who was in a war zone) plus 8 members of the Cabinet and some former Presidents were gathered outside the State Capitol on a river with a wooded ridge on the other side. I saw a true security nightmare and wanted to avoid it. What I did see due to living under the flight path of the airport just outside of town was the landing and take off of several planes of the Air Force One Fleet that is used by our top officials and often available for ranking members of the Congress or Senate. I saw them just a couple hundred feet over my head in groups of about eight at a time that day plus several C-5s the days before and after with the cars.
Washington established everything with office of the President - setting the term, swearing to God on the Bible, etc., followed by all Presidents. He was the ONLY choice for the first leader. He declared days of prayer/fasting/thanksgiving. After he reluctantly served two terms, he gladly returned home. He was observed to retain the power to make the Presidency anything he wanted - even a lifelong/hereditary office. Instead, he stressed he was a mere employee of the People. At this behavior, King George III called Washington one of the greatest men who ever lived. The juxtaposition between the Royal Old World and the Republican New World could not be more stark. This is American Exceptionalism.
@@melissa502 He didn't set term limits, that was done after FDR. Putting your hand on the Bible isn't in the Constitution which is good for Trump since he didn't do it which was weird.
Whats terrifying is that grandpapa joseph had control of the new-clear football.... some maid could've woken him up and said "mister joe, mister joe... shoot a nook at rhode island.. godzilla is on a rampage" and it wouldve happened
So yes, while the kitchen is B1 and certain equipment is held in B2, the full schematics of any substrate subfloors is unknown, what is known is a multitude of tunnels that stretch to dozens of places in DC. Been in the congress tunnel myself, and it does eventually connect to the white house, but it isn't exactly close to it
The presidential term limit, 4 years and an optional 2nd term became law after FDR's administration. The Constitution was amended to prevent a popular president from establishing excessive power.
Lincoln did not die immediately. He was carried across the street to a rooming house. Doctors, family members, and even members of Congress visited his bedside during his final hours. He never returned to the White House and didn't die in that bed shown in the video. It is, however, his actual bed and the room has been preserved as it was in 1865.
There is a sneakret there in a lower floor. Oh, and it's haunted lol. I was going to say that the President was to only do four years, under the Articles of Confederation in 1789. A president can only do 2, 4 year terms, so yes you can do back to back terms. In the current Presidents case, he stumped for a second term and lost. Therefore, he could stump for another term, which her did, and won. In my opinion, the should have also given the Justices of the Supreme Court a term of 10 years, instead of life terms.
I'm from DC and have been to the WH several times, either with school or when people came to visit us. I also knew someone in the Clinton Administration and got to go in the press room at the end and things were winding down.
I toured the White House back in 1963 .... have a pic in front of it to prove it! Yeah, they don't talk about the bunkers under the White House but they're there! LOL My son was a Marine stationed at Camp David, the Presidential Retreat in Maryland in 2000! We got to visit and tour it as well as sit on a Marine One Helicopter! When the Clintons left the White House, they were so mean, their staff took keys off the keyboards just to be mean! The also tried to take a lot of antiques with them but got caught! Just goes to show, you can take the people out of the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park out of the people!
He got the facts about the Truman balcony really wrong. In 1948, the interior of the building was in terrible condition. Floors were sagging and walls were warped. All valuable artifacts were carefully removed, then the interior was completely demolished, leaving only the exterior stone walls.. An entirely new steel and concrete building was constructed inside the original walls. The Truman Balcony was added during the four year project.
To answer a couple of your questions. A president can be in office for 4-8 years depending on how many elections he wins. A president can not be in office more than 2 terms (8 years total). Most presidents do not serve more than 4 years. However, a very select few have managed it, Trump is starting his second term.
Wrong, you can only be elected to two four years terms, but can serve longer. Lets say the President died in 2 yrs the VP would serve 2 yrs, he could then run again 2 more times totaling 10 yrs. look up the 22nd Amendment.
I watched this that morning.And one of the things I was doing was looking for the person with the nuclear football and I think I might have seen them briefly but i'm not sure
When I was a teenager (a long time ago) you could go to the White House and visit. You had to have a ticket, which you could get free. My Aunt lived 2 hours from DC so we went there every year. I’ve been in the White House probably 7 times. You can’t go there now. I also took my Girl Scout Troop to the White House for the Annual Easter Egg roll when I was in my early 30’s. It was outside on the lawn, not inside.
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I watched this video and had my son watch it with me again. I knew they made changes, but I had no idea how many and how fast. Despite all the useless eaters employed by our federal government, we still have centers of excellence and the White staff is simply world class in everything they do.
Upload the highlights here. To quote a wise philosopher: "Ain't nobody got time for that." - Sweet Brown
You don't get the full American experience without politics. Anyone who says otherwise is yanking your chain.
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The 4 year term for the President was written into the Constitution after independence. Up until after World War 2, they could serve as many terms as they could be elected to, Franklin Roosevelt won 4 terms. After his death, an amendment to the constitution was passed that limited the president to 2 terms.
To add to this, President Washington set the 2 term example. The term limit is to prevent any one person or party from gaining too much power.
Yes, exactly
Just for clarification, the bed where Lincoln died was not in the White House. He never made it back there.
Right, he died in a boarding house across the street from the theater.
I thought that sounded wrong to me. I grew up in DC and my stepfather's law office was around the corner from Ford's Theater. Sometimes I'd help out, and frequently went into the Petersen house to pass time (I never found Ford's Theater that interesting). It's also a place you take people when they visit town.
But that bed was the one he passed away on
@BM-hb2mr no it isn't, it was the bed from the White House's VIP guest room under Lincoln, the bed he died in is now in the Chicago History Museum, it's a much plainer, simpler design. There's no proof he ever actually slept in the one in the Lincoln bedroom, it was just in the White House when he was president
It's Lincolns bed room. According to white house history. Org... suite of bedroom furniture acquired by the president's wife Mary Todd Lincoln in 1861.
I am a ret. US Navy Sailor. I have served with two gentleman that started as Mess specialist/Culnary specialist. Both of them went on to cook for the White House. Of course they both rose in rank quickly. One even lead the US Navys competition team that would go up against all the other branches and won multiple times.
Thank you for your service.
Those two basements aren't the only thing under the White House. There is a massive bunker well below those basements.
The bunker is underneath the East Wing, not the main part of the house, the modern East Wing itself was built as a cover story for the bunker construction during WWII
You are correct much deeper.
@ It was all redone under Obama. Not saying you are wrong, but they added massively to what had been built in that era.
and a FDR air raid shelter Tunnel and a ton of other tunnels
@@11sfrI remember when the vice president and Mrs, Bush went there the day of 9/11
When John Adams came into the newly built White House as the second President, his wife Abigail hung the laundry to dry in the public East Room. In 1882 President Chester Arthur actually emptied the White House on the front lawn and had a yard sale - relinquishing many mementos from the Lincoln years. First Lady Jackie Kennedy tracked down and returned a lot of missing historical items when she served in the 60s.
I liked Jackie already but this just makes it better! 😊
The Presidents desk changes. There are 6 different ones, although the last 5 or 6 have used to same one. It is called "The Resolute Desk". It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute.
(and is a co-star in the movie "National Treasure").
Might add the Central panel was added for JFK because Jr. liked to hid under the desk.
@@charlesmaurer6214 It was added for FDR to conceal a safe and his leg braces .
The staffer that found Hillary's dress, and thus prevented her from going out in her birthday suit, was given the highest civilian award for service to the USA, for not putting us through that.
That was the line that threw me into a violent full body shudder. Hillary - birthday suit - YUCK !!!! SHUDDER !!!!!
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There is definitely an "sneakret" floor. 😄
The tall structure behind the White House, is the 550 ft tall marble obelisk honoring President George Washington. Peace!
Just to add to that it is called The Washington Monument
each term for a president is 4 years, you can run for a second 4 year term. If you win the second term, it will be your last, as the constitution has an amendment stating this. The reason is to prevent one person from becoming a dictator
it is to keep a political party from dominating the system, besides after FDR was elected 4 times congress was afraid his ghost would seek re-election, seriously, they are stupid at the capitol
Really it’s so the president never gets anything meaningful done, especially if it’s a first term, and the plebs stay distracted.
@@Felale ignorant comment
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try to tell democrats that, they swear trump will run in 2028. btw democrats are not very smart
The President is limited to 2 four year terms if they decide to run again. Franklin Roosevelt served 4 terms, each 4 years. The 22 Amendmentof the Constitution limited the President to the 2 terms in March 1947.
Yeah - they passed that as soon as he died. Like, "Let's NOT do that again."
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It became effective with Dwight Eisenhower in 1953, the 22nd Amendment expressly did not apply to the president currently in office at time of ratification, so Harry Truman was constitutionally the last President not to have a term limit, not that it made any difference in his case
"President for LIfe" Roosevelt was ELECTED to 4 terms, however he died before serving all of his 4th term in office.
If they serve a partial term of less than 2 years they can serve 2 full terms. If they serve a partial term of 2 years plus, then they can only serve 1 full term.
The Lincoln Bedroom has not been untouched since 1865, for one thing, it wasn't a bedroom in 1865, it was Lincoln's office and conference room, for another, the White House was totally gutted and rebuilt in the early 1950s, so literally nothing inside it could possibly be untouched from the 19th century, its a mid 20th century building inside a late 18th century shell.
The bed was in the White House when Lincoln was President, but it was actually used in the primary guest bedroom for visiting dignitaries, not the president's bedroom. The wallpaper, carpet, and curtains were installed during George W. Bush's administration in the 2000s in order to replicate what was in the room in the 1860s, but it didn't look like that until then.
Barron Trump sure has grown! He was about 6" shorter than his dad when they first moved in, now he's like 6'7" tall.
6’9
He’s actually closer to 6’10 now
I actually heard he's 7'11"
@@mr.scrubber4524 no you didn’t
He's a bigly son. Still an ass.
Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater, several blocks away from the White House. The gun was a derringer, and fairly low powered. Lincoln took several hours to die.
That assassination led to the sick joke: Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
Apparently it was a very funny satire making fun of upper class Brits.
@@georgemetz7277"Our American Cousin" or something like that if I'm even remembering correctly.
The nuclear football doesn't actually have the codes for nukes, it has a sequence of characters among which are the actual codes that only the president and nuclear command know. It's done like this so that others can't identify the codes and so that the president only has to be able to recognize the code rather than perfectly memorize it.
Trump had a special button installed that has someone bring him his diet pop when he presses it. 😂
I'm just here to argue that we can call it Coke this time cause it's literally Diet Coke and only Diet Cokes
And no, I don't call all soda's Coke
@@swiftfishin5680 I couldn't remember if it was Coke or Pepsi. That's why I used pop.
You can still tour the Whitehouse and Capitol Hill (Congress). If you go to DC, stop by the National Cathedral when the choir is rehearsing. It will make you cry.
While it is beautiful, England many of the best choirs. The Choir at King's College as but one example.
That last pronunciation of inauguration was perfect!
DUDE, my sister went to Washington DC for a convention, she is a substance abuse counselor. BUT because she has DUI's on her record, they won't let her in as a guest. She couldn't go on the tour.
Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head, but was still breathing until he finally passed the next morning. I don't think the bullet size was very large.
Some are of the opinion his doctor killed him. Modern medicine could have saved him. Booth shot him with a Derringer that used a ball shot which made a dime sized hole.
@@georgemetz7277 True and the Probing even created a second channel as bad as the bullet.
That tall structure is the Washington monument
Ummmm actually, we now call it The Bill Clinton Monument.
@@th3geoffypoo And some want to paint it black after it cracked during BO's terms and rename it the BO monument too. The Democrats really do get upset they lack many monuments. JFK got a memorial flame after being murdered under his own VP's orders with the CIA doing the op and USSS setting him up with FBI for cleanup just like Butler.
The Lincoln Bedroom is a bit of fiction. Lincoln didn't die in that room. It wasn't his bedroom either, but it was his study. He actually died in a rooming house across the street from Ford's Theater where had been shot.
The person who kept us from seeing Hilary in her birthday suit deserves a congresional medal of honor.
The White House was designed by Irish-born James Hodan. In 1814, during the War Of 1812, the White House was burned down and rebuilt after British soldiers set fire to it.
then gutted to the limestone shell in the 50s this is what the inside looked like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Reconstruction#/media/File:The_Shell_of_the_White_House_during_the_Renovation-05-17-1950.jpg
Its only 2, 4 year terms because it should never be the case where it takes mass casualties to get the guy out of office. We just have to wait 4 years.
I’m American and I watched this video just before you did and I was just as impressed
So Presidents can stay in office for up to 10 years, however it's not always been this way.
At first, there were no term limits. As long as you won the vote, you stayed President. HOWEVER, our first President, George Washington, set the precedent that a President would not seek re-election after their second term. This continued until Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. FDR, as he is known, was elected for a third term in 1940, and a fourth term in 1944. After this, in 1951, The 22nd Amendment was enacted, limiting Presidents to 2 terms.
Now you may be asking, "But Ahnalee, you said a President could serve for 10 years. Two terms in office is only 8." And I would respond with "well done you're paying attention!" If, for some reason, the President becomes incapacitated, either by being removed from office, dying in office, or resignation, the Vice President automatically fills the void. However, the Vice President is only considered to have served a full term if they have served more than 2 years as President. If they serve over the 2 year mark, they can only run for President one more time. If they serve under the 2 year mark, then they can run for 2 more terms as President. Add that up, and it's a maximum of 10 years as President.
Wow, I didn’t know that. I REALLY didn’t pay attention to this stuff in school.
Technically it's 10 years minus 1 day.
I'm pretty sure a President can only serve for up to 8 years, not 10, since the term in office is 4 years.
@@RayWhiting No. @ahnalee is correct in the explanation offered.
@@RayWhitingyou didnt read the whole thing did you?
Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.) is the only sitting U.S. president to have been injured in an assassination attempt. Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Donald Trump (2024, by Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh) are the only two former presidents to be injured in an assassination attempt. However, Donald Trump was re-elected later in 2024.
In all of these cases, the attacker's weapon was a firearm, and all the subjects were male. Gerald Ford experienced two attempted assassinations with a woman as the assailant.
Oswald shot no one his gun had a steel bolt welded inside catching his round you are siting the Warren C. Coverup led by two that were in the planning (Hoover and Dulles) FBI & CIA heads under orders from the VP before and POTUS after LBJ. It also LBJ who ordered the top removed, agents pulled off the car and announced the route in advance violating 3 rules even then of the USSS. You could also add the two failed attempts by Treasury to murder sitting President A. Jackson that failed due to damp powder in the the Capitol and a River Fairy. Or the poisoning of Z. Taylor. Also at least 5 attempts were made on Trump between Butler and reclaiming the office. One left people on stage blinded or other ailments similar to Havana Syndrome (EM/CHEM attack) also another was stopped just short of a rally and the last Iranian one was stopped in the planning stages.
In addition to this pretty much every president since Nixon has had at least one assassination plots against them. Most have had multiple with Obama having the most. If i remember correctly.
Something tells me Trump may pass him though. He's already had 9, I believe, and Obama had 11 or 12 I think. 🤔
For completeness, four presidents have also died in office from natural causes: William Henry Harrison, died after one month in office; Zachary Taylor, died after 16 months in office; Warren G Harding, died after 2 years and 5 months in office; Franklin Roosevelt, died a little over one month into his fourth term.
To answer your question on who decided 4 years is the term, the Founders. It’s written directly into the constitution.
The big white structure is the Washington Monument it is 555 feet tall (169.164 meters) and 4 presidents have been assassinated
Years ago I have visited the White House. NOW due to the past few decades you have to make an appointment and get security clearance to visit.
Dude! Don't use that guy's videos. It is so full of inaccurate information. I had to stop watching because he is so wrong.
Thank you Adam for not taking a stance as I truly come here to get away from political bickering. Opinions are like a holes everyone has one but we don't need to be witness to it.
Been there! It’s pretty impressive. A pool is not a bad idea. One of our presidents used to bathe naked in the Potomac daily. A crowd would rise to watch him, lol.
Of course we did! And I'd bet popcorn was specifically invented just to watch the show.
They turned the basement pool into the White House Press room. Perhaps they should turn it back into a pool and not actually tell the press corps until they are up to their necks, LOL.
There is a pool. It is on the back side of the WhiteHouse by the Oval Office. You can see it on Google Maps and I have been there when I was stationed at Ft. Myers.
@@davidwarren3433 I'm surprised it's an outdoor pool. I'd expect a posh indoor pool for the WH.
@@Raggmopp-xl7yf It is at least heated, so it can be used for a slightly longer portion of the year than would be typical for an outdoor pool in DC
You're right about "sneakrets". Probably half the complex is highly classified.
The bullet didn't initially kill Lincoln. Surviving "headshots" isn't actually totally uncommon, if it's the right caliber and enters your head and the right angle. He was unconscious, basically a vegetable for about 8 hours and then finally died.
It also didn't help the Doctors at the time probed the wound several times and even added a second channel as bad as the bullet's. Cousin Abe's doctors were elder ones that had limited active recent practice that skills had been passed that point by the average army medics for treating such.
They search for bugs and scan and replace everything -- rugs, drapes wall pictures, plants, furniture and busts. Welcome bacK Wnston Churchill. Friends forever.
I'm happy! Very very happy Adam! MAGA!!!
A lot of damage cane be done in four years. A term is four years, a president can be in office a total of two terms, so max of eight years.
Except as noted above, if a VP assumes the office with less than 2 years remaining, they can run for 2 terms.
9:01 Reagan was a lifeguard and loved swimming. I don't think he requested a pool for its opulence
Attending the Ford’s Theater and museum was wonderful, We sat directly across from Lincoln’s booth (no pun intended).
He died across the street.
Maybe they brought the bed from there to the White House, but I doubt it. The building (thinking it was a boarding house back then) was closed so I don’t know if the bed was still there or a replica was added.
I would imagine Lincoln’s bed at the WH was simply his bed for when he was POTUS.
After FDR was in office for so long (4 terms), term limits were instated. They are talking about that with Congressional offices.
The death bed is at the Chicago History museum. That's his everyday bed in the Lincoln bedroom.
IMHO, There should be term limits for Representatives and Senators. There should also be an age maximum put in place. You have to be 25 to be a representative, 30 for Senator and 35 for President. Should make it were you must assume office before your 56th birthday. That way your gone before 60 and we stop the Alzheimer patients from being in office. I would set Representatives to 4 ( 2 year) terms and Senators to 2 (6 year)terms . Also place a maximum of 20 years total. but, That all is just my opinion.
US Presidents use to not have term limits, but after Franklin D Roosevelt held office for most of four consecutive terms (died during 4th of office) a decision was made to alter the terms of the Presidency. The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution only allows an individual to serve two terms (total of 8 years) of office of four years each.
Can you imagine putting on your resume that you used to be a White House mover? Instant-hire.
At one time there was a pool in the White House, I forget which Prez had it drained and filled with cement
An indoor pool was built in 1938/39 for Roosevelt that he used because he suffered from polio.
In 1979 (?) an outdoor pool was built for Gerald Ford and as far as I know, it is still there.
It wasn't filled, it was just covered over to create the press briefing room in 1970, the pool basin is still there underneath the floor, accessible through a trap door, the idea was to make it capable of being turned back into a pool easily if a future president desired, but its never happened
@@11sfr Also due to the shape of the pool made it easy to convert to a lecture hall like shape.
Look, if we are being honest, we just like doing stuff like this. The people of America appreciate a well oiled machine, and so rarely is it the case domestically.
As a commercial carpenter you’d be amazed how quickly certain things can be accomplished. I’ve been on new construction hospitals where every patient room had a prefab bathroom that got craned in.
Seems I read that the indoor pool was covered and is now the press room.
Nixon had bowling lanes built and they were covered to build the press room.
Yes, the indoor pool was turned into the press room, but a heated outdoor pool was added in the late 1970s to replace it
@@AnaFrost-k9k The bowling alley is still there, its under the North Portico (the main facade facing Pennsylvania Avenue), the indoor pool was covered over to create the press room (in the colonnade structure linking the West Wing to the central part of the house)
President's can serve 8 years, but must be elected twice. The last President to serve more than 8 years was FDR. He was President during WWII.
4 Years ... the original plan was that Representatives, Senators and the President were going to be regular people, not politicians. There was no plan for career politicians or political parties. You were asking a regular guy to leave his job/work/company for 4 years.
The Lincoln bedroom has his bed. The death bed is at a museum in Chicago. It's a Jenny Lind style bed from the boarding house across the street from the theater. I think it's called the Chicago History Museum. I've been there as a kid.
It isn't actually Lincoln's bed, it was Lincoln's primary guest bed, it was in the state guest room during Lincoln's administration, not the presidential bedroom
Teddy Roosevelt's kids would sometimes ride a horse into the white house.
As American I really enjoy watching people from other countries reactions.
Many times, staff stays for the next administration. They know the house better than the President and family does. I've heard the background checks for White House Chef is crazy. So not only do you have to be good at cooking, but you have to have a spotless record.
They actually bring the president's food on foreign trips as well.
Trump had the Winston Churchill Bust brought out and put on display yesterday.
He also claims to be a born-again Christian... what's your point about Churchill? Trump is not a student of History. Now Melania... That one's very underestimated.
Adam I just that heard Northern Ireland is getting a Chic Fil-Fil-A can't wait to see you do a video on it they were established close to me and I think you'll love it
Caesar Chavez was a socialist. Possibly a communist, but that's debatable. But socialism lines up with the views of people in the Biden administration so it makes more sense that this political viewpoint, as well as catering to hispanic voters, was his actual motivation for having that bust in the office.
He lost Hispanic voters over it as the ones here legally came to get away from Chavez or others of his type.
What's hilarious, though, is that Chavez loudly opposed mass immigration as it would suppress wages of the low-skilled workers he represented.
Facts
Precisely
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I took a White House tour back in the 1980s. I have been in the same room with several presidents. Obama and Bush Jr stood 20 feet from me at the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. Bush and Obama stood behind a bullet proof glass wall because we were outdoors.
Adam, most people don't realize that the White House Complex is more than just The Residence. There are FOUR buildings in the whole complex. In addition to The Residence, there are the East Wing [offices]; The West Wing [location of The Oval Office]; and The Executive Office Building. BTW, yes, there are secret rooms and tunnels under the complex.
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Same thing in the UK. Any expensive gifts to members of the Royal Family become the property of The Crown.
I’m pretty sure Franklin Roosevelt passed not long after his inauguration in April of 1946, so they decided “let’s not have anyone else die during the presidency” and put limited terms served.
Was smiling so hard last night as he was signing the executive orders. Disappointed that there weren't any for carrying firearms, but that'll probably take an act of congress.
I'm pretty sure SCOTUS has made it pretty clear that, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED." Of course, living in super-red states I don't know what blue states do to make a run-a-round to the Constitution.
It was decided that Preisdents would serve for four years in 1789 when The Constitution was ratified. Under the Articles of Confederation, it was a single year term.
Term limit wasadded to the Constitution after Roosevelt. Ratified in 1951.
Adam, there was an indoor pool, but it was decked over to build a Press Room. He's wrong about Reagan wanting a pool. Gerald Ford already had an outdoor pool built in 1975.
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When Thomas Jefferson was president from 1801 to 1809, there was no fence around the White House, and a man walked into the White House from the street because he wanted to talk to President Jefferson about an issue. Jefferson was eating in the dining room, and the man walked right in. Jefferson talked with him, and the man left. 😂
You only get 2. 4 year terms.If you were a vice president the rest of the 1st term you finished doesn't count against you running 2 more times.The main reasons for the 2 term limit is one party gets too powerful and its too hard for another party to have a chance.Also,the 1 st president said it shouldn't be a life long job
I think the country here is divided over the election, but I pray that gets sorted out soon..
Not really divided
@CameronW2239What rock are you living under?
@CameronW2239lol
No, the majority of Americans voted for Donald Trump and it was way too big to rig for the anti- American, criminal Obiden administration! They tried though but it did not work!
@@mr.scrubber4524 the one that doesn't watch cnn
I worked for the daughter in law of Bill Clinton's secretary, she oversaw much of the transition team both incoming and outgoing. Sweet lady and very proper/cultured. She said it was a scary time trying to meet the deadline.
We decided to avoid voting in a king. After Franklin Roosevelt, we decided a president should only have 2 4 year terms.
This is the first video I've ever watched that gave me real anxiety.
The 4 Years is The Term because President George Washington Saw it as Long Enough to Do Changes but also not Allow for Politicians to be like a Dictator.Yes the President can Run for 2 Terms but that's the limit.
There are actually 2 swimming pools at the White House there is one outside that is clearly visible on Google Earth and the press room has a pool under the floor except they did remodel it a couple of years ago and they may of filled it
In the 1950s and 1960s, the White House had an indoor pool.
Just so you know it rarely includes major changes to the whole building but normally certain rooms such as the sleeping quarters and the Oval office. Additional changes may take place over time after often with other key events. A President can do up to 8 years in office and no you are not able to because you must be born a US Citizen not just become one. Foreign born citizens can hold any other offices, including those in the line to become President if others die or removed. If you are in that line though it would bump to the next in order. After the Speaker and Senate Pro Temp it works through the various cabinet secretaries. When Senator Byrd (Former Senate Pro Temp) died I asked for the day off to avoid town (Charleston WV) while everyone in that line down to the S. of State Clinton (who was in a war zone) plus 8 members of the Cabinet and some former Presidents were gathered outside the State Capitol on a river with a wooded ridge on the other side. I saw a true security nightmare and wanted to avoid it. What I did see due to living under the flight path of the airport just outside of town was the landing and take off of several planes of the Air Force One Fleet that is used by our top officials and often available for ranking members of the Congress or Senate. I saw them just a couple hundred feet over my head in groups of about eight at a time that day plus several C-5s the days before and after with the cars.
Washington established everything with office of the President - setting the term, swearing to God on the Bible, etc., followed by all Presidents. He was the ONLY choice for the first leader. He declared days of prayer/fasting/thanksgiving. After he reluctantly served two terms, he gladly returned home. He was observed to retain the power to make the Presidency anything he wanted - even a lifelong/hereditary office. Instead, he stressed he was a mere employee of the People. At this behavior, King George III called Washington one of the greatest men who ever lived. The juxtaposition between the Royal Old World and the Republican New World could not be more stark. This is American Exceptionalism.
@@melissa502 He didn't set term limits, that was done after FDR. Putting your hand on the Bible isn't in the Constitution which is good for Trump since he didn't do it which was weird.
The four year term is in the Constitution.
Whats terrifying is that grandpapa joseph had control of the new-clear football.... some maid could've woken him up and said "mister joe, mister joe... shoot a nook at rhode island.. godzilla is on a rampage" and it wouldve happened
So yes, while the kitchen is B1 and certain equipment is held in B2, the full schematics of any substrate subfloors is unknown, what is known is a multitude of tunnels that stretch to dozens of places in DC. Been in the congress tunnel myself, and it does eventually connect to the white house, but it isn't exactly close to it
And they won't be painting it any time soon lol it's Aquia Sandstone
The presidential term limit, 4 years and an optional 2nd term became law after FDR's administration. The Constitution was amended to prevent a popular president from establishing excessive power.
Lincoln did not die immediately. He was carried across the street to a rooming house. Doctors, family members, and even members of Congress visited his bedside during his final hours. He never returned to the White House and didn't die in that bed shown in the video. It is, however, his actual bed and the room has been preserved as it was in 1865.
There is a sneakret there in a lower floor. Oh, and it's haunted lol. I was going to say that the President was to only do four years, under the Articles of Confederation in 1789. A president can only do 2, 4 year terms, so yes you can do back to back terms. In the current Presidents case, he stumped for a second term and lost. Therefore, he could stump for another term, which her did, and won. In my opinion, the should have also given the Justices of the Supreme Court a term of 10 years, instead of life terms.
I'm from DC and have been to the WH several times, either with school or when people came to visit us. I also knew someone in the Clinton Administration and got to go in the press room at the end and things were winding down.
I am 90% sure the the bed Lincoln died in is in a house across from Ford's Theater and is NOT in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House.
A president is limited to two terms....8 years max.
I toured the White House back in 1963 .... have a pic in front of it to prove it! Yeah, they don't talk about the bunkers under the White House but they're there! LOL My son was a Marine stationed at Camp David, the Presidential Retreat in Maryland in 2000! We got to visit and tour it as well as sit on a Marine One Helicopter! When the Clintons left the White House, they were so mean, their staff took keys off the keyboards just to be mean! The also tried to take a lot of antiques with them but got caught! Just goes to show, you can take the people out of the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park out of the people!
He got the facts about the Truman balcony really wrong. In 1948, the interior of the building was in terrible condition. Floors were sagging and walls were warped. All valuable artifacts were carefully removed, then the interior was completely demolished, leaving only the exterior stone walls.. An entirely new steel and concrete building was constructed inside the original walls. The Truman Balcony was added during the four year project.
To answer a couple of your questions. A president can be in office for 4-8 years depending on how many elections he wins. A president can not be in office more than 2 terms (8 years total). Most presidents do not serve more than 4 years. However, a very select few have managed it, Trump is starting his second term.
1 term is 4 years. No one can be president for more than 8 years
Wrong, you can only be elected to two four years terms, but can serve longer. Lets say the President died in 2 yrs the VP would serve 2 yrs, he could then run again 2 more times totaling 10 yrs. look up the 22nd Amendment.
That monument in the background is the Lincoln Memorial. 🙂
He was pointing at the Washington Monument, not the Lincoln Memorial.
I’ve been to the White House several times when I was young we lived nearby. That was in the 60’s.
I watched this that morning.And one of the things I was doing was looking for the person with the nuclear football and I think I might have seen them briefly but i'm not sure
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When I was a teenager (a long time ago) you could go to the White House and visit. You had to have a ticket, which you could get free. My Aunt lived 2 hours from DC so we went there every year. I’ve been in the White House probably 7 times. You can’t go there now. I also took my Girl Scout Troop to the White House for the Annual Easter Egg roll when I was in my early 30’s. It was outside on the lawn, not inside.
Sounds great! 👍