[mkjessup]

at first, he had not wanted the position."
He had decided that just after he chopped down his father's cherry tree and just before he threw a dollar across the Rappahonack River, I presume.

Sounds like you're the one who hasn't spent much time reading Washington's biographies.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I believe that it is generally accepted idea today that while Washington was not consumed by ambition, he did not have to be convinced to take up his offices. They idea that he had to be unwillingly coaxed into these positions went out with parson Weems.