Why wasn't he even slightly nervous about being hunted / prosecuted when he stepped down? I mean he was no angel...
it wasn't filled with browns
>>18767030Lincoln wasn't nervous about being taken out either, he was trying to enjoy an evening at the local theater when he was shot. People tend to take for granted the fact that the average person isn't a violent mentally ill retard.
>>18767030First off Washington was so beloved that people literally wanted to give the man absolute power. The main beef you could say he had was with slaves, but slaves obviously don't have any political power. Also In America's early history people could literally just walk inside the White House and meet the President. Even into the early 1900s, the President would often shake the hands of normal people and Teddy Roosevolt would invite people to wrestle inside the White House. The whole thing was actually apart of the democratic theory the Founding Fathers had in mind. They didn't want to turn the President into a divine figure like what happened to European monarchies and a lot of Old World governments. This slowly started to die down as America grew into a big and populated country and of course a lot of crazy people would attempt assassinations in the 1800s.
