We're leaders, we're leaders, you'd think we were the best,
But if we are the leaders, ain't you sad for the rest?
In Nazi Germany, where future Führers are chosen at the age of 8 and finish their rigorous training in mountain castles, nobody would think of singing such a ditty. But in the closest U.S. equivalent, a student-leadership institute at President Roosevelt's summer house in Campobello, New Brunswick, a group of would-be young U.S. leaders chanted it lustily last week, thereby pointing out a distinction: a democracy's leaders must have a...
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