Drew Clark: For the presidential debate: Four questions from great presidents

Source: www.deseretnews.com - Sunday, February 28, 2016
SALT LAKE CITY — As our nation selects its next president in this year's election, what moral values can we learn from predecessors? What must voters know about the character traits of a potential president? The Republican National Committee's decision to host an additional primary debate in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 21, provides the opportunity to ask these questions, and to get answers, of Republicans. Here are four questions flowing from the lives of and political legacies of four great presidents: George Washington — As our first president, Washington knew he was setting the precedent. Soon after he declined to run for a third term, and after John Adams was elected, the governor of Connecticut — and Washington’s former military secretary — urged him to run again. "Election of a President is near at hand,” wrote Jonathan Trumbull , “and I have confidence in believing, that, should your Name again be brought up … you will not disappoint the hopes & Desires of the Wise & Good in every State, by refusing to come forward once more to the relief & support of your injured Country.” “Prudence on my part,” Washington replied, “must arrest any attempt of the well meant, but mistaken views of my friends, to introduce me again into the Chair of Government." Question: When have you put aside power or personal advantage for the good of your country? Thomas Jefferson — Jefferson’s expansive mind made him an enlightenment man, and whos

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