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> this is in the epilog to your book. you write the founding fathers hoped that all future presidents would be people of sagacity, self-restraint, honesty, experience, character and profound respect for democratic ideals. they iept anticipated that any chief executive would strain to avoid taking the nation into conflict except to confront a genuine immediate national danger. are we living up to that hope right now? >> i don't think so because the founders just in terms of temperament, they were thinking of george washington. one reason why in the constitution they're pretty vague what a presi...