GW: I entered the second term of my presidency with a different outlook than before. I am grateful that the American people feel that I performed my duties well enough my first term that they would unanimously re-elect me as president. While I am very grateful for my re-election, and would have been disappointed with myself had I not been re-elected due to a poor first term, I can not say that I am enthusiastic to be serving another term. In my letter to Henry Lee on January 20, 1793, I wrote that “for however it might savour of affectation in the opinion of the world… my particular, and confidential friends well know, that it was after a long and painful conflict in my own breast… it being my fixed determination to return to the walks of private
