在他们那个时代，没有一个配得上总统职位的人会屈尊去竞选总统。乔治·华盛顿被邀请服役。几十年后，他的继任者也被期望坐在电话旁。
(In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later, his successors were also expected to sit by the phone.)