Feb 13, 2020
3 min read
You Cannot Elect Greatness
You can only vote for potential.
Given the way he won the Civil War, voters in 1868 had every expectation that Ulysses S. Grant would be a great president.
He was only mediocre.
Voters loved Herbert Hoover in 1928. They saw him as a millionaire with a social conscience, having led American relief efforts in Europe after World War I.
