Chuck Grassley: “last week I began giving a series of speeches about the void in moral leadership in the White House. By moral…”

“last week I began giving a series of speeches about the void in moral leadership in the White House. By moral leadership, I don't mean morality. I mean simply setting a good example for the American people: Being trustworthy, honest, candid, and so on, simple, basic values that all Americans share, and that all Americans expect to see in their leaders. Frankly, there has been a failure by this White House to set a good example. And I have been very specific about my observations, what the President, the First Lady and others have done, and where the good example broke down. I began this series of speeches with the words of two great American presidents in mind. The first was a pronouncement by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR said that, the Presidency is preeminently about moral leadership. It's not about being a good engineer or a good decisionmaker or a good speaker. It's about moral leadership. The second was from Teddy Roosevelt. He talked about the obligation we have to tell the truth about the President, more than any other American. To not do so, he said, was both base and servile. And so I have felt an obligation to make this observation, Mr. President: There has been a failure in this White House of setting a good example for the American people.”