ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about "The Presidency", he says, "Is not merely an administrative office". That's the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is preeminently a place of moral leadership. All of the great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified. Washington personified the idea of federal union. Thomas Jefferson practically originated the party system as we know it by opposing the democratic theory to the republicanism of Hamilton. This theory was reaffirmed by Jackson. Two great principles of the government were forever put beyond question by Lincoln. Cleveland, coming into office following an era of great political corruption, typified rugged honesty. T. R. and Wilson were both moral leaders, each in his own way and for his own time, who used the Presidency as a pulpit.
