It would not have been diplomatic or polite for a would-be President to ask the current head to step down.

This applies not just to would-be Presidents but to all survivors.

But would-be presidents have no choice but to get with the program.

But he is not the only would-be president whose place on the ballot is at risk.

Years in the trenches used to be the only apprenticeship for would-be Presidents.

But the long list of other would-be presidents is a reminder that politics, at least, remains largely unchanged.

It is an unlikely background for a would-be president in class-conscious Peru.

The list of biographers of this would-be president is extensive.

Two days later in Phoenix, the would-be Democratic presidents gather for their next debate.

The two would-be Presidents usually respond with little more than mutterings that they are eager for, yet wary of, arms control.