Week Four: The Role of The President
“Still, I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man.”
At the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, it was obvious that George Washington would be the first President, but how would that office be defined and delimited so that others might someday fill it? The challenge of establishing an adequate, but not excessive, executive authority for America is the topic of this fourth Isaacson and Ellis conversation.