President Day- 18 Th February 2013
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                                                         The President Day was celebrated  in America  on the 18th February 2013 in order to give rich tribute to the all presidents..  However life of some the presidents are still Role model for the people.The presidential perks,comforts and glamour are very attractive,but duty part is always difficult. However there were  presidents who  remained aloof from presidential glamour, and comforts.  They knew that those perks and comforts are all at the cost of hard earn tax money of the people.
                                                          Abraham Lincoln was one of the great presidents who came from very ordinary family and lived very simple life. He was a president who liberated all slaves in America. He wanted that his family should be treated as a ordinary family without giving consideration to his presidential position. Therefore he wrote one letter to the principal of his son's school that he should treat him like all other students. President Harry Truman who took very important decisions during  the second world war was very strong but simple living president. He fired the most popular General MacArthur for his inappropriate conduct.  However he was very simple person  in his personal life. He drove down to his home town by car on his presidential retirement in spite of that he was entitle for more comfortable transportation facilities. He refused the offers of substantial amounts of assignments after  his presidential retirement. He believed that it was given because he was former president of USA.  He use to say that American presidency is not for sale. This shows that some of the presidents were not affected  with the perk and glamour of the presidential offices.
                                                      It is recently reported that president of Iran Mohamed Ahmadinejad refused to stay in presidential house and  wanted to function from his small house. He wanted to live among his people. However security agency forced him to stay in Presidential House. He ordered to remove all expensive furnitures and carpets from presidential Mansion. Besides that he lives their with minimum facilities.  He slip on the floor like ordinary citizen and some time also takes food with visitors on the floor. This is only to show that he is a representative of  poor people of his country.
                                                    The President of Uruguay Jose Alberto Pepe Mujica stays in Two Bed room House in his farm House. There are only two  government guards along with him. He washes his own cloth and fill up water from near by well. He raises flowers for Extra Income. He drives tractor and repairs himself if necessity arises. There are no servant in the house and he drives himself for going to office. He is  well dress when he is performing his official duties. He goes to restaurant like ordinary person and meet the people personally  He had only $1800.00 asset in 2010. He draws salary of $13300.00 per month.  But out of his salary he gives away $12775.00  as donation to needy people and maintains him self from the remaining amount of $525.00. He  appears to be living  life according  to the concept of Mahatma Gandhi.
                                                  Mahatma Gandhi told the same thing to the congress ministers after independence of India. He advised them to live in small House and to draw salary of  Rupees Five Hundred per Month. Some of them even murmured then that Gandhiji appears to have lost his mind.  Thus his ideals were never fulfilled.The first president of Indian Republic was Dr Rajendra Prasad who was true Gandhian and lived very simple life in Rashtapati Bhavan .  The subsequently most of the Presidents were Glamorized with the perks and comforts of President House. The present President of India Pranav Mukherji said that once he was very much impressed with the wonderful Horses of  the Presidential Mansion. It is  reported that one of the past Indian  presidents was  asked to return the gifts which were received as a president and supposed to be deposited in the Indian treasury.    Thus some time the glamour, perks, and comforts are also the attractions for the leaders to occupying the Presidential Positions.
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