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After three years of retirement, including two spent on a widely-reported and
well-received world tour, former president Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) was
ready to return to the White House. Grant remained popular with many Americans,
but his attempt at an unprecedented third term incited a backlash, with
opponents charging him with "Caesarism" (i.e., hunger for power, even
dictatorship). Since no president (to that time) had ever served more than two
terms, and with reformers seeking to limit the presidency constitutionally to
one-term (voluntarily heeded by the current president, Rutherford B. Hayes),
Grant's desire for a third-term seemed undemocratic to many Americans. |
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