[skimbell]

That is my understanding also. In order to eliminate the 22nd amendment, a new amendment would be needed repealing the 22nd. The occupant of the WH would not be effected by the changed (new) amendment. Truman would have been eligible to run for as many terms as he pleased. Eisenhower would have been the first President limited to two terms by virtue of being the first President elected under the new amendment.

Now that's not to say 0 wouldn't try, just as his pal in Honduras is trying to circumvent their constitution. Hopefully, if 0 tried something like this, the people, the congress and in the last hope-our military, would handle the situation the same way the Hondurans have.

[DuncanWaring]

The 22nd amendment contains this clause:

But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

There is no reason to expect that any amendment repealing the 22nd would have the same clause.

[cynwoody]

The occupant of the WH would not be effected by the changed (new) amendment.

That would depend on the language of the new amendment. And it would take a new amendment. Otherwise, I would fully support a Honduran / Chilean type solution.

[El Gato]

That is my understanding also. In order to eliminate the 22nd amendment, a new amendment would be needed repealing the 22nd. The occupant of the WH would not be effected by the changed (new) amendment. Truman would have been eligible to run for as many terms as he pleased. Eisenhower would have been the first President limited to two terms by virtue of being the first President elected under the new amendment.

Why do you think that? There is a specific exception for the sitting President in the 22nd amendment. But that doesn't mean there would be one in any repeal of it. Even under the 22nd, it wasn't when they were elected that counted, it was if they were serving when the amendment was proposed and/or ratified. But that was put in to make the amendment more attractive to Democrats, who would not have wanted Truman so limited, although in the event he, like every President, save F. Roosevelt, chose not to seek a 3rd term.