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To: NYIslander

>>>"3. Twelve presidents have served exactly one full term in office. One of them served a different number of days than the other 11. Who and why? "

>>>Jimmy Carter? I think they changed inauguration day in 1932

The inauguration date was changed to January 20th with FDR's second inauguration in 1937, so his first term would have been shorter by a few weeks, but he doesn't quite meet the one full term requirement.


16 posted on 05/09/2006 12:30:14 PM PDT by NC28203
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To: NC28203

I'd hazzard a guess that the answer has something to do with leap year...?


20 posted on 05/09/2006 12:32:42 PM PDT by camle (Keep your mind open and somebody will fill if full of something for you.)
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To: NC28203
Can't be Carter. He and GHW Bush had the same rules for their inauguration date.

I should think it HAD to have been John Adams, who had one less day in his term due to leap year NOT occurring in 1800. Every other full-term President has a leap day in his term, but not J Adams.

23 posted on 05/09/2006 12:35:39 PM PDT by SAJ (b)
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