 he was tired and he wanted to be home. Anyone who's visited Mount Vernon can understand why it's a beautiful place. And so I think there were a lot of reasons he didn't want the presidency. However, he also understood he was the only person that could be the first president because he was really the only national figure other than Benjamin Franklin. But Benjamin Franklin was very old and in poor health. And everyone understood he was not going to be president. And Washington was the only person that could really unify the states and