Leadership and the Presidency - an FDR perspective

Leadership and the Presidency - an FDR perspective.

From "The American President"  (Lewis - Played by Michael J. Fox)  ".... People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand."

We've been drinking a lot of sand - or worse, as we suffer through the horror of Donald Trump and the potentially much more catastrophic threat that is Michael Pence.

Here is what Franklin Delano Roosevelt said about what it takes to be the President of the United States:  

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