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Article: WHAT NEXT FOR THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY?(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 27, 1999
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Every American president leaves his stamp, his signature or his stain. George Washington, the one truly ``indispensable man'' in whom citizens of the infant republic could repose both their trust and confidence, defined the presidency.
To preserve the union during this country's hour of maximum peril, Abraham Lincoln overcame his own innate modesty to become the nation's strongest president. With an impact upon history still being felt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, brimming with indomitable optimism and self-confidence, inspired a people woefully bereft of both to believe they could beat the Great Depression as well as Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.
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