George Washington as leader

The purpose of this speech is to show George Washington’s success by his unwillingness to continue his presidency for fear of becoming a dictator or a king.  Although he was very popular and love by his peers, he did not like the direction that his position was going in.  He did not want to become a king.  He did not want America to become a monarchy.  He hoped it would continue the direction it was going at that time and would not change.  He stepped down even though the people begged him to remain in office.  His precedent was set and the presidents after him followed in his footsteps until Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  It is now a law that a president may not be in office for more than two terms, or for a total of eight years.  I respect Washington’s approach to the matter because he could have stayed in power, but he loved his nation and countrymen too much to remain in office.  George Washington shows tremendous amounts of leadership through this action.  It takes a true leader to know and realize when his time is up and when he needs to step down in order to help his country stay intact.  His actions helped save the country from foreign ways such as becoming a monarchy and we have George Washington to thank for that.