George Washington led a rag tag band of fellows for seven years in a series of skirmishes, guerilla actions and battles; in the end, with late breaking help from the French navy the colonists and General Washington defeated the British and Washington gave the world a new country.
Washington was President of the Philidelphia Convention that gave us our Constitution.
Later he became first President of the United States of America.
He served in that office for eight years - two terms.
He could probably have served to death - there was no term limit in the Constitution and Washington was one of the most revered people in that looming new century.
He could probably have established a dynasty and defined the presidency in such a way as to make it an institution indistinguishable from any monarch then extant.
But he didn't.
That notwithstanding, he surely could have served a third term.
But he felt that the new country was better served to test its mettle in the world under new leadership.
He felt that the transfer of power - unheard of in those times - peacefully and co-operatively was a revolutionary concept needful of demonstration and testing in real time in the real world.
So, he declined to run for a third term, returned to Mt Vernon and gave his new country its head to run as it might in the world under leadership newly chosen as the people and the Constitution dictated.
He was a great man; he gave us our country, he took the levers of power to get it going, and then he turned it over to us to keep on course.
And his faith in us has been warranted; we have done a lot of things great and significant.
Now we need another great man to relinquish the presidency to a new generation.
Joe Biden gave our country back to us in 2020.
Now he needs to give the responsibility for competing for leadership of that country over to someone else.
Before we lose it again, this time permanently, and to darkness, futility and oblivion.
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