Why did Roosevelt decide to run for an unprecedented third term in 1940?

a. Roosevelt believed that he was the only person capable of leading the country through the trying times..
b. None of the Democrats likely to be nominated were inspiring candidates.
c. Several of the likely Republican nominees, especially Wendell Willkie, seemed to have a good chance of beating any Democrat except Roosevelt.
d. Roosevelt did not want to see a defeatist or isolationist like Joseph P. Kennedy get the nomination..
e. all of these choices.


ANS: D

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