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Hi, Spoon Jabber.

Here's the text of the 22nd Amendment.


Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by 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.

Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

It says nothing about the terms being consecutive or non-consecutive. The only thing it says is that if you begin your tenure during someone else's elected term (e.g., Lyndon or Andrew Johnson), you can run for two terms additional to the one you're serving out. And even then, it only allows such a person to seek an additional term if they served "no more than two years" of someone else's term.
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