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WRITERS > journalist, editor, author > Walter Lippmann
The final test...
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Source: Roosevelt Is Gone, in New York Herald Tribune (14 April 1945; repr. in The Essential Lippman, pt. 10, sct. 5, 1982).
-- Walter Lippmann, (Sep 23 1889-1974), US journalist, editor, author; He won Pulitzers 1958, 1962, for his syndicated column, Today and Tomorrow.