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...said. The people who will actually succeed in politics are smart enough to keep their ambition quiet. I tried to avoid the presidentials at first. But the longer I spent at Harvard, the more fascinating they became. Most Harvard students are pretty ambitious. But wanting to be president??and letting people know it—that seemed like a whole different level of ambition. Maybe all these presidential kids were just a bunch of tools. But I was intrigued. Where did these guys come from? What were their motives? And did any of them actually have a shot...
...maverick,” he told me at one point. These were 18-year-olds who were ready to become the leaders of the free world. I felt dizzy. I asked Chris and Hunter if they had met anyone at Harvard who seemed more competent than them to be president??someone who made them feel inadequate. No, they told me. They hadn’t. Everyone I told about the article asked me how I could bear spending so much time talking to these people. “What are you going to call your article...
...Homeric epithet, by “that guy who wants to be president.” One night last spring, it even happened on the shuttle. “This kid in my tutorial, he’s really smart, he has like a 4.0, he wants to be president??” the guy next to me was saying. “Caleb Weatherl…he’s this sophomore,” the guy went on. “We’re friendly,” he added, “But we?...
...circumstances of their lives,” he wrote. “What they can control is how they prepare themselves—intellectually, morally, and socially—for leadership.” It was a refreshing perspective. That’s how I wanted to envision my president??like Cincinnatus, who took leadership of Rome during a crisis and then quietly returned to his plow. Caleb was certainly preparing himself for leadership (“I love America,” he told me. “I love issues”) and maybe that...
...While the absurdities and excesses of Obama supporters’ joyous effusion may prove an amusing object of contempt for the many not similarly thrilled by last Tuesday’s outcome, the new President??s pseudo-religious following among the youth may prove a dangerous precedent...