 After all, he was the man who won American independence. He famously just wanted to go home to his farm and his family, but the nation kept calling him back. Usually when people become president, they are elated and have achieved their life ambition. When Washington became president, he took office reluctantly, so reluctantly that he described feeling, and I quote, like a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. He then had tried to retire after his first term,