Characteristics Of President Essay

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There are many different qualities people believe a president should contain. For centuries the United States has gone through their fair share of good presidents, and bad ones. Presidential qualities make up whether a president was considered a good leader, or a not so good leader. The three presidential qualities I believe every president should contain are, a strong vision, strong leadership, and has to be a public servant. Many presidents in the past did not have a strong vision and this is why I believe they failed at their presidency. A strong vision for our country is a very important thing to have while you are president. Lincoln Is one example of having a prime strong vision for our country. He “understood that there 's a sequence …show more content…

Lincoln i believe was the best when it came to his strong leadership. “Lincoln surrounded himself with people, including his rivals, who had strong egos and high ambitions; who felt free to question his authority’ and who were also unafraid to argue with him.” This proved that Lincoln had strong leadership in the way that he was not afraid to be around his rivals, and that he did have enough self control and respect to take their high ambitions, and strong egos. I believe Lincoln was a very humble man and was not into arguing or bickering about things when it could be settled in a much more professional way. Which also shows that he cared more about the union and the things it needed, rather than his rivals. Franklin Roosevelt also showed strong leadership by, “He had the strength and the leadership abilities to win World War 2, he handled the delicate diplomacy in dealing with wartime US allies, like Churchill, stalin and De Gauile and Chiang Kai-Chek” We know throughout the course of history these US allies have been known to have strong tempers, and weren’t always the people to compromise with each other. Roosevelt showed his strong leadership through this because he did have a good relationship with these 4 allies, and he dealt with these four big leaders in a very sophisticated and professional way in which a strong leader should act. It would have been different if Roosevelt …show more content…

Lincoln showed his public servant quality by, “letting random citizens come up and talk to him about why he makes the decisions he does, and he reassures that he has their best interest in mind.” Lincoln i believe was one of the best presidents that had the quality of being a public servant. Lincoln actually cared what his people had to say, what they thought about certain things, and how they were doing in their life. Imagine if lincoln didn’t take the opinions of people and just did everything on his own? he would not be known as one of the greatest presidents our country has ever known. He did things to get equal right for black and whites, which blacks at the time begged for. He sat outside and talked to hundreds and hundreds of people, when in reality he didn’t have too. Lincoln had a commitment to himself to serve the greater good of the people. With him focusing on this it revolutionized and forever changed a nation for the generations to follow. Bill Clinton is also an example of a president who had a public servant quality in him. He showed this by, “he was very serious about balancing the federal budget and reaching out to the business community, but at the same time not abandoning the needs of poor people.” In addition to President Clinton being one of the very serious presidents of our time. He wanted to get things done and was very firm in some of his beliefs.

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