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impacted the office of the presidency in ways that live on today. The present day cult of

personality that surrounds the office can be traced back to Andrew Jackson. With the

likes of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, who described Jackson as “brutish and

savage,” the presidency had been drifting toward a kind of faceless aristocracy. Jackson

changed all that. Jackson had that certain intangiable quality known as “charisma,” a

qualiity so lacking in both our present day candidates that it might explain the

unprecedented difficulty we experienced in declaring a clear-cut winner in the Gore/Bush

What is charisma? Among our modern day presidents, Kennedy, Johnson and

even Nixon all had it, though certainly not the same aspects of it. Charisma does not

necessarily equate with “charm” though this is part of it, and probably the largest part of

Kennedy’s charisma and the least of Nixon’s. Nor does charisma equate to leadership

qualities. Rather charisma relates to certain aspects of a man’s personality or character

. . .
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