Very good questions to be considered! I only wish they would have taken a more prominent role in the campaign.
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16. For what are you willing to risk your popularity, and perhaps your re-election?
17. Are you prepared to dismiss a subordinate who may be a friend, but who is manifestly not up to the requirements of the office to which you appointed him or her?
18. Can you live with able subordinates who are prepared to tell you, "Mr. President, you're wrong"?
19. There are things a president cannot tell the American people. But are there circumstances in which you would deem it your responsibility to mislead the American people? To deny what you know to be true? To affirm what you know to be false?
20. Who are your moral heroes?
George Weigel, A Newsweek Contributor, Is Distinguished Senior Fellow Of Washington’s Ethics And Public Policy Center.
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