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George Washington, first president of the United States and a source of inspiration for Sarokhan, probably didn’t have a daybook, but he did have a list of maxims to live by. Like Sarokhan, Washington scrawled his list at age 16. Sarokhan says this is a coincidence—he wrote his list before learning about Washington’s. The two lists have some parallels. While Washington’s list, which was borrowed from a collection of maxims that originated in late sixteenth-century France, includes the instruction to “Use no Reproachfull Language...
...When you meet someone, you should remember that person,” Sarokhan says. “People call it networking, people call that self-serving, but I think it’s just because I like meeting people. You never know when you might need a friend...
...ambition is fuel, Sarokhan, who describes himself as a “loud, glory-seeking, ant-to-be-in-the-center-of-the action” kind of guy, is about ready for take-off. He’s a few parts history buff, spouting off obscurities like the exact dates that Hitler experienced bomb scares; a few parts clean-cut prep school good ol’ boy, all tucked-in polo shirts and khakis; a few parts all-American gentleman, opening doors and shaking hands and even drifting into a patriotic Southern accent despite being a New Jersey native...
...charge under my ass. I want to give back to this country; I want to give back to it what it’s given me.” The dream is so pervasive in his life it has even entered into his sex life. Sarokhan has been the lucky recipient of an all-American girl’s undivided attention when she, clad in an American flag and not much else, seduced him to the tune of “God Bless America...
...students are ambitious. This is not earth-shattering. But what distinguishes those with an eye on the presidency from those with an eye on stations of less grandeur is an element of what Libby perhaps unfairly terms “self-confidence bordering on arrogance,” what Sarokhan describes as “unshakable” optimism, what others might call just plain faith...