George Washington decided to voluntarily resign because he chose not to serve a third term. Washington had been threatening to retire multiple times due to his advancing age that leads to his health conditions and the ideal of his presidency was being viewed as monarchy He was becoming senile, since he was in his mid-sixties he came down with influenza; Washington nearly died of pulmonary complications, and was raging in New York. Also he had to depend on his spectacles since he was growing blind. In the Founding Fathers, they described him as an athlete going through the motions. Although George Washington was aware of his age, he wanted to leave the office alive. Washington believed that it was important for him to resign while he was still