In the US, we have presidential elections every 4 years. I don't think that's ever been interrupted. And, someone can only serve 2 terms (8 years total) max. (This was a recent-ish change, after Franklin Roosevelt got elected 4 times in the early part of the 20th century.) If someone gets elected, and then they do stuff that a lot of people don't like, there's not that much legal recourse--you have to put up with them until the next election, 4 years later. (Impeachment, yes, but the two presidents who were impeached, that is, accused--Clinton and Jackson--were not found guilty, and served out their terms. Nixon was threatened with impeachment and resigned preemptively. No other legal strategy has ever been used, that I'm aware of. Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.)
Just a couple of clarifications.
A president can only be
elected to two terms, however the maximum number of years they can serve is 10. So when Lyndon Johnson became president after Kennedy's assassination, he served less than two years. He was then elected (4 years) and he could have run for a second term, but chose not to. If he had been elected to a second term, he would have served just under 10 years.
The two presidents who were impeached and acquitted were Clinton, and Andrew Johnson in 1868. He became president when Lincoln was assassinated.
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