As the battle for the presidency goes on, it's a good time to look back at 1789, the year of our nation's first presidential election. Unlike today's candidates, George Washington did not want to serve, even though many believed him the only man for the job.
On Sept. 24,1788, Revolutionary War Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was one of many writing, visiting and insisting that Washington agree to be the first president. Lincoln wrote Washington: “There never was an instance when it could have been more necessary to call into exercise the wisdom, the prudence and patriotism of the United States than in important transactions of appointing the executive and the legislative branches of the new government.”
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