George Washington established the presidency. How much of it would he recognize now?

George Washington crosses the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War in 1776.

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.

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