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To: KLP who wrote (181430)	10/4/2006 11:26:19 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793914

I'm afraid I took Plotz's piece a bit personally. Lewis and Clark are my lifelong model for leadership, and our country has all too few of their kind. They proved that leadership can be effectively shared, which is something that I think is woefully unrecognized in today's world. They surmounted grave obstacles, not the least of which was within. Lewis was probably bipolar, and as is well known, killed himself after being unable to cope with the celebrity people tried to heap on him. If Jefferson had given him another expedition to lead instead of a governorship to which he was unsuited, no doubt he would have beaten John C. Fremont and others to the punch. I like to imagine how Lewis and Clark would have coped with today's leadership challenges. No doubt Lewis would have said something like: "My good friend Captain Clark and I have decided that THIS* fork of the river is the true course of the Missouri, and this is the one we're going to go up."* And we would follow them because they had been right before and were proven right this time. Can you imagine anything like that happening today? That's a real problem, I think. We try to destroy our heroes.