Could Washington have become king or dictator?

[Sanford Levinson]

Re this discussion, I do think that Washington's greatest gift to the
country was his standing down after the second term.  It was a truly
noble rejection of a "cult of indispensability" that could well have
destroyed the experiment in republican government.
 
sandy
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