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the passion of the voters and so forth. when you talk about a symbol of state, how important is that? very important to. having the presidency is all from the kingship and it s a two-pronged thing, symbolic president and manager of the government and it has been from the start and some are good administrators and some are battle better symbols and i think it s the characteristic of the office. they have to be both, really. in your book, the leaders we deserve and if you didn t, you write that if great or near great presidents were shaped by numerous experiences with people from all walks of life the unsuccessful spent most of their adult lives in a single pursue politics. that s correct and if you look at some of my failures, james buchanan probably had more jobs than anyone. he waited all of his life to be president and it was a goal from the time he was in the state legislator. he conspired behind his wife s back to run for president. she did not even know he ....
two-pronged thing, symbolic president and manager of the government and it has been from the start and some are good administrators and some are battle better symbols and i think it s the characteristic of the office. they have to be both, really. in your book, the leaders we deserve and if you didn t, you write that if great or near great presidents were shaped by numerous experiences with people from all walks of life the unsuccessful spent most of their adult lives in a single pursue politics. that s correct and if you look at some of my failures, james buchanan probably had more jobs than anyone. he waited all of his life to be president and it was a goal from the time he was in the state legislator. he conspired behind his wife s back to run for president. she did not even know he was one of the candidates and joshua was stunned when he received it. we think of others. daily or i often say brings a lot more out than success.as a so not a very good relationship ....
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mrs. pratt had five of them. the largest collection outside of russia, more than the queen of england owns and she had them here in this house. later on she donated them to the virginia state museum. so today you could see them in one of the rooms down there. she predeceased mr. pratt by a number of years. he lived here by himself up until 1975 when well into his 90s he died and at that point he gave the house to the national park service. realizing its historical importance. thanks to the jens rossty of this man that we are able to show the house to you. i hope you enjoy it. if the you have any questions ask me and of course, we have a lot of interesting things going on on the front grounds today as well. so please take advantage of those as well. the gardens were on the front of the house. entirely obliterated. if you look at pictures, we have one on the fireplace, of that side of the house during the war, you ll see no garden. after the war was over in the 1920 s the ....
and his wife, until the day he died, he died in his sleep, almost at the age of 80, two days before my wife and i were supposed to have dinner with him and his wife here in washington with his other friends to celebrate his impending 80th birthday. but he had the courage to keep out of step when everybody was marching to the wrong tune. he how do i say this? he would face wad dilemma, like maybe voting with his caucus or voting with the president, and something that he just thought was wrong, he was amazingly he would, like, say, what is the right thing to do? i ve heard him say this moreen this a few times. as governor, chairman of the national governors association, here, he would say, what is the right thing to do? he wouldn t say, what is the easy thing to do, what is the expedient thing to do, but what is the right thing to do? he was a person of deep faith. we have a bible study group that meets here every thursday, just upstairs not far from this floor, ab ....