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You have to remember the U.S. President can't act alone to change things quickly. He has to work with congress.
As it is now a president really only has about 18 months to do anything substantial.
After that the folks in congress are running for re-election and don't have time to deal with him.
After the midterms are over the next thing you know they're running for re-election again themselves and congress is either trying to make that easier or harder for the president (depending on which party controls congress)
Or if it's the president's second term, after the midterm elections they're a lame duck and congress is trying to set the table for the new nominees.
What I think may be a better situation is to have a president serve one six year term. A president may serve two terms total in their lifetime but NOT sequentially.
If they want to serve two terms they'd have to sit out for 6 years and then run again.
I also think term limits for congress are important as well but that's another issue altogether.
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