Challenge: Name which US president (only ONE) was the most loved or most liked or most respected by the highest majority of people.

 

  There was a whole swath of anti-Dwight people from the time he announced his plan to run for president and continuing until after he had long left the office. Most of them decried that he was not even remotely qualified for the task, while others predicted World War III was the only possible outcome of having him lead the US.  Once he was elected, he was faced with stifling opposition to his efforts; his memoirs outline the fights he endured and the venom he had to face because of those who were against him.  While he never assumed that being president of the US would be an easy job, he both spoke and wrote of how he had been caught off guard by how strongly people turned on him when he won the election. 
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It was just a guess. Thanks, though. I don't study much history.

 

  Abraham Lincoln was deeply hated for many years of his political career by thousands of people (keep in mind that the population was much smaller in the 1830s and 1860s), something that even followed his legacy after his death. 

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Yep, Lincoln was the most hated man in America at the time of his death. Even his political allies found an exceptional number of faults with him. His death by assassination made a martyr of him and created the iconic myth of today.

  That's not what I was saying at all.  Nice twist.

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  Detractors for years had attacked the Kennedy family for their Irish roots and their Catholicism, and when the probability of the US presidency came into play, they stepped up their fear and distrust ten-fold.  I cannot speak to the supposed "logic" to their argument as to why Irish heritage  or Catholic faith signaled the downfall of the country if a president had that pedigree, but then again, this was the same mentality that abhorred ethnicity, race, national origin, 'wrong' religion, etc. etc. etc.  The way his father was connected to and had been enriched by nefarious individuals in less-than-legal enterprises was hushed up, but not completely unknown to large numbers of people.  His slow march toward appeasing the push for civil rights didn't earn him a lot of fans among the Deep South. Also, JFK was an early proponent of US involvement in Southeast Asia and its escalation as military advisors were being sent over there openly, and the CIA clandestinely.  Over all, the Kennedy legacy with its Camelot façade relied heavily on spin that resembled the media remaining silent about previous president Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio-mangled legs, and turning a blind eye to the bedroom antics with Hollywood "royalty".  As such, not many people remember, or not many people ever knew, all of the dirt surrounding Kennedy, resulting in the idol-like status he has with pie-eyed worshippers and approval ratings that didn't take into account all factors of his actions and non-actions.
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FDR died in office in 1945 one year into his forth term. The 22nd amendment was passed 1947....two years after his death.  The limit was not to apply to Truman. (FDR's VP)