https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/07/one-term-presidents-trump/ 说“被动”意思是自己想选而被选下来了，而只有一任任期在川普之前的美国总统不止9位，有几个是自己不想选的。 The counting continues but the race is over. Former vice president Joe Biden was projected Saturday to defeat President Trump to become the nation’s 46th commander in chief. Now Trump joins history’s bitter club of one-term presidents — those who were elected, served one full term, and tried and failed to be reelected. Some one-term presidents don’t qualify for membership. President John Tyler, for example, who took over after the death of President William Henry Harrison before losing reelection, does not count. Neither does President Lyndon B. Johnson, who declined to run for reelection in 1968. Three presidents — James K. Polk, James Buchanan and Rutherford B. Hayes — made and kept promises to serve only one term. But Trump joins nine other presidents who were rejected by the American voters they had led for four years. John Adams, 1797-1801 Our second president was the first to lose reelection. John Adams is remembered warmly as one of our founders, but his presidency was marred by clashes with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, France, German-speaking farmers and pretty much anyone who insulted him (see: Alien and Sedition Acts). In the 1800 presidential election, he came in third behind Jefferson and . John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover often makes it onto “worst presidents” lists, and, man, did he pack a lot of incompetence into a single term. The stock market crashed seven months into his administration, marking the beginning of the Great Depression. Like Van Buren, it wasn’t his fault, but his feckless response made it much worse. By the time he was voted out, millions of people made homeless by the economic collapse were living in shantytowns dubbed “Hoovervilles.” Yikes. Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Despite serving only one term, no one has had a post-presidency as long and active as Jimmy Carter. At 96 and counting, he is both the president with the longest life span and the president with the longest post-presidency (nearly 40 years). His presidency was plagued by economic problems and the Iran hostage crisis; his post-presidency has been devoted to human rights, diplomacy and alleviating poverty. He has even published poetry, negotiated for hostage release in North Korea and been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993 Like other one-termers, George H.W. Bush was the successor to a larger-than-life president, Ronald Reagan. His presidency saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, and after a quick victory in the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Bush enjoyed 89 percent approval rating. But just over a year later, as a recession took its toll, Bush lost the White House to Bill Clinton. Bush also enjoyed a long post-presidency before his death in 2018, during which he occasionally teamed with other ex-presidents for humanitarian campaigns like tsunami relief.
说“被动”意思是自己想选而被选下来了，而只有一任任期在川普之前的美国总统不止9位，有几个是自己不想选的。
The counting continues but the race is over. Former vice president Joe Biden was projected Saturday to defeat President Trump to become the nation’s 46th commander in chief. Now Trump joins history’s bitter club of one-term presidents — those who were elected, served one full term, and tried and failed to be reelected.
Some one-term presidents don’t qualify for membership. President John Tyler, for example, who took over after the death of President William Henry Harrison before losing reelection, does not count. Neither does President Lyndon B. Johnson, who declined to run for reelection in 1968. Three presidents — James K. Polk, James Buchanan and Rutherford B. Hayes — made and kept promises to serve only one term.
But Trump joins nine other presidents who were rejected by the American voters they had led for four years.
John Adams, 1797-1801 Our second president was the first to lose reelection. John Adams is remembered warmly as one of our founders, but his presidency was marred by clashes with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, France, German-speaking farmers and pretty much anyone who insulted him (see: Alien and Sedition Acts). In the 1800 presidential election, he came in third behind Jefferson and .
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover often makes it onto “worst presidents” lists, and, man, did he pack a lot of incompetence into a single term. The stock market crashed seven months into his administration, marking the beginning of the Great Depression. Like Van Buren, it wasn’t his fault, but his feckless response made it much worse. By the time he was voted out, millions of people made homeless by the economic collapse were living in shantytowns dubbed “Hoovervilles.” Yikes.
Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Despite serving only one term, no one has had a post-presidency as long and active as Jimmy Carter. At 96 and counting, he is both the president with the longest life span and the president with the longest post-presidency (nearly 40 years). His presidency was plagued by economic problems and the Iran hostage crisis; his post-presidency has been devoted to human rights, diplomacy and alleviating poverty. He has even published poetry, negotiated for hostage release in North Korea and been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993 Like other one-termers, George H.W. Bush was the successor to a larger-than-life president, Ronald Reagan. His presidency saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, and after a quick victory in the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Bush enjoyed 89 percent approval rating. But just over a year later, as a recession took its toll, Bush lost the White House to Bill Clinton. Bush also enjoyed a long post-presidency before his death in 2018, during which he occasionally teamed with other ex-presidents for humanitarian campaigns like tsunami relief.