overcome the latter’s propensity to violate any man-made social conventions but also which strengthen the soul of the effective statesman by raising the rational over the impulsive parts, ours is an appeal to enduring values whose re-affirmation can re-establish our officials as true cultural and social leaders. Reconnecting with America’s past involves recognizing that our past leaders could not have built this nation if their uncertainty and sense of alienation in a “new world” had obliterated their sense of personal courage. America’s “founders” recognized the higher purpose that informed their everyday, practical struggle to afford a humane, sustainable existence for themselves and later generations. An American leader that identifies himself with the enduring values of his society then acquires the levels of personal fortitude, moral clarity, and social foresightedness that necessarily represent the personality make up of any good leader. Thus his virtues as an individual becomes the framework through which we learn to collaborate with each other and express our solidarity a program that provides authentic solutions. His exemplary life as an authentic leader of a democratic society, highly informed about the history and needs of his society, becomes the medium through which we learn to abandon our selfish and narcissist attitudes toward our world and build living social bonds among each other since through his display of freedom, courage, moral-religious certainty, hard work, honesty, and civic mindedness, we locate the realization of the most important virtues we personally aspire to. He in effect becomes an individual whose spiritual constitution is collectivized in ways that in turn bring us together since through a process