Bush decided that he, too, would be clear in that call. In his Second Inaugural, he intoned: "So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Bush also emphasizes that he made decisions as president so as not to repeat what history had convinced him were the mistakes of former presidents. He relented on changes in his controversial Terrorist Surveillance Program when his acting attorney general, James Comey, and FBI Director Robert Mueller threatened to resign over aspects of it. He didn't want a repeat of President Richard M. Nixon's infamous Saturday Night Massacre, when Nixon's attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned after refusing to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Bush also was determined not to micromanage the military planning in Afghanistan and Iraq, as he believed Johnson and McNamara had done in Vietnam. Although his critics would disagree, he also believes he took care not to repeat the wartime overreactions that had led to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 under John Adams, Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, or Roosevelt's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. I ask what he believes is the most important quality in great leaders. "Willingness to stand on principle, the notion that public opinion changes back and forth and that you shouldn't chase public opinion. ... Lincoln had a set of principles that were