Spirit of Leadership

WHAT IS A TRUE LEADER? Americans a concrete way to do this, he initiated the Peace Corps program, which sends volunteers to help nationals in underdeveloped nations. Kennedy also inspired the United States to invest bil lions of dollars in a space program. I believe that he first created in his countrymen American pride, and then he strengthened that self-image by enabling the American people to achieve what no nation had ever achieved— sending a manned spaceship to the moon and back. Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan had a clear sense of his life’s purpose: the elimination of Communism. He desired to lift totali tarian oppression from millions of people who were suffer ing under its ideology and policies. His purpose became his passion, and it influenced his thinking, his pursuits, and his foreign policies as president of the United States. Unlike pre vious American leaders, he believed that Communism not only could be contained, but that it could also be defeated. It is time that we committed ourselves as a nation— in both the public and private sectors—to assisting democratic development.... What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term—the march of freedom and democ racy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which O UR PURPOSE MUST BECOME OUR PASSION , INFLUENCING OUR THINKING AND PURSUITS .

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