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The Republican-controlled Congress changed the Constitution after he left, so no one else can serve for more than eight years (or up to ten if they take over for less than two years of another president's term). This turned out, ironically, to primarily affect Republicans: only one Democratic president ([[Bill Clinton]]) and three Republicans ([[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[Ronald Reagan]], and [[George W. Bush]]) so far have actually served long enough to be affected by the term limit. (Sitting President [[Harry S Truman]] was grandfathered in by the amendment; [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] served less than two years of [[John F. Kennedy]]'s term and could have run for one more term. Both of them chose not to run again for political and personal reasons.)
He's consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the greatest Presidents in American history, next to [[George Washington]] and [[Abraham Lincoln]] while among libertarians and some conservatives he's actually considered the ''worst'' for his dramatic expansion of government and human rights abuse.
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