>>>>I'll tell you something - the best president we've seen in our lifetimes, wasn't even president for a full term. Gerald Ford. He had flaws, sure - but IMO was the best of what we've seen.
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>>>>Not bad for someone who wasn't elected and didn't really want the job.
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>>>Like Robert Heinlein said, in words not exactly like these; the real problem is that we never get a chance to elect people who aren't lusting after power. It would be better to put someone in power who has to be dragged there kicking and screaming and who would just do the job and want nothing more out of it than to get out at the end of term.
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>>I agree completely. Maybe it should be like jury duty only with vetting....
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>Probably the closest we ever came was Calvin Coolidge.

You're showing your age, Chas ;-)

Wasn't his nickname Silent Cal? Supposedly his secretary was bet she couldn't get him to say three words. He said, "You lose."