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The trick with George Washington is he was the only president in the history of the United States that didn't want to run the country. Virtually everyone wanted him to lead after the war, and he obliged.

This is perhaps a sort of tyranny implied in competitive democracy. That in order to be elected takes an immense amount of work and resources, and why would someone go through the hell of running a campaign if they didn't yearn for power?



>The trick with George Washington is he was the only president in the history of the United States that didn't want to run the country.

Johnson didn't seem to be a big fan of inheriting JFKs boondoggles both foreign and domestic.

FDR didn't want to run in '44 but felt that not screwing with a winning combination was his duty to the nation and the nation mostly agreed.

Polk called it quits after 4yr because he did everything he was elected to do.




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