Washington's Humility and Modesty Were Positive Qualities, and He Didn't Really Want to Be President.

The culture that people lived in at the time that george washington was alive was very different from the culture that we live in now in certain respects, and that's one of them, modesty. In other words, you know, we're in the middle of a presidential election now. I don't think any of the candidates, for example, would say, i am not qualified to do this job. Washington was pressed to be president. People felt that he was tehe leader, the most natural leader, and he didn't really want to do it. He wrote as he was setting off from mount vernon to new york: "With a mind oppressed with more anxious and