I keep thinking about the song “One Last Time,” from the musical Hamilton. In it, George Washington explains that he is stepping down from the presidency. Washington sings, “If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on; it outlives me when I’m gone. One last time, and then we’ll teach them how to say goodbye.”
George Washington was demonstrating the brand new democratic concept of peaceful transition of power where a leader peacefully hands over control of government to a different, newly-elected leader.
Biden has given us all a master class in peaceful, democratic transfer of power, of putting your country first, and what it means to be a patriot.
I keep thinking about the song “One Last Time,” from the musical Hamilton. In it, George Washington explains that he is stepping down from the presidency. Washington sings, “If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on; it outlives me when I’m gone. One last time, and then we’ll teach them how to say goodbye.”
George Washington was demonstrating the brand new democratic concept of peaceful transition of power where a leader peacefully hands over control of government to a different, newly-elected leader.
Biden has given us all a master class in peaceful, democratic transfer of power, of putting your country first, and what it means to be a patriot.