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Editor says, what if the two Presidential term limits of the Twenty-second Amendment of the US Constitution was never enacted? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 2010, at a little after seven o'clock in the evening, a rather dejected looking cardiologist appeared on the steps outside the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital with his hands uncharacteristically buried in the pockets of his lab coat. Whilst his body language said it all, Dr Allan Schwartz proceeded to deliver a short, impromptu speech hurriedly prepared for the press, confirming the tragic news that sixty-three year old Bill Clinton had passed away during an emergency heart procedure.
Slick Willy gets his manSix years before, a quadruple-bypass operation had been performed, forcing Mr Clinton to resign from office during the final year of his third term1. The catalist for Mr Clinton's recent ill-health had surely been overexertion resulting from his vigourous attempts to organise humanitarian relief efforts for the people of Haiti. 
But it was widely suspected that the underlying cause of the blocked coronary arteries was years of stress and junk food eating during his eleven years in the White House. And surely the pressure of those health disorders had piled up very quickly in the final three years, despite the President's pursuit of leisure activities such as jogging and also horn-blowing. 
Because after September 11th the Administration pursued the ultimately successful mission to capture and bring to justice the arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden. It was a deeply personal goal for Clinton, who was widely seen as having ignored the threat from al-qaeda during his first two terms in office.
Ironically for a politician renowned for his pursuit of women, "Slick Willy" had finally got his man.
Entry posted by Todayinah Editor
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Politicians Source: Wikipedia Labels: Bill Clinton, Al-qaeda, Heart attack, Haiti, Afganistan. Editor says, 1) in this timeline the two term limits of the Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution was never enacted.
Many thanks to Eric Lipps, Stan Brin and Scott Palter for their decisive contributions to the development of this post.
~ I'm sure it wouldn't be long before someone posted that, Twenty-second Amendment or no, there's almost no likelihood that President Clinton would have gotten a third term, especially if as in OTL he'd been impeached in his second.
A much likelier candidate for a post-FDR three-term presidency would have been Eisenhower, whom polls showed could easily have beaten any Democrat, including JFK, had he been allowed to run in 1960.
Of course, given Ike's heart condition, he might not have finished a third term, as is true of Three-Term Bill in this post. That would have put Richard Nixon in the White House years earlier than in our history.
~ I don't see any other president having much more success than Bush did catching Bin Ladin. People act like that would be the easiest thing in the world to do---and it isn't.
~ 1. Clinton IMo could have been reelected in 2000. W was not an especially good campaigner and Clinton could have run on peace and prosperity [dot com crash had started but was not obvious and the quite Dem leaning media was not reminding the voters that the bubble had burst].
2. We had the chance to bag Bin Lauden. It was botched at Tora Bora.
~ Nixon in charge of the Cuban Missile Crisis... there's a scary thought. With the Dems keeping control of the White House pre-Dot Com Bubble bursting, there'd be major shifts in the 2002 elections and a major Republican winner in 2004, just in time to catch the economic upswing of ~2005.
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