It is only supposed to be awarded if someone meets the loftiest standards of leadership and achievement, and exemplifies the values instilled in us over months of arduous classroom and practical tuition.
Jean Oelwang, the chief executive of Virgin Unite, who had flown in from Salt Lake City, stressed that the Necker excursion (which she said would have a business-oriented theme of "future leadership") had loftier goals than providing a backdrop for hookups.
Yesterday Sessions announced his desire to ascend to even loftier heights within the House leadership: He made clear his aspirations to become the next majority leader of the House of Representatives.
Addressing these kinds of social, human problems will be key for the new leadership, alongside its more lofty goals of rejuvenating and strengthening the nation – and just as tricky.
Regardless of the lofty ideals that these men profess, the fact is that the rebel leadership has now abandoned any desire to court the international media, blacklisting any journalist who publishes information which does not suit its agenda.
It is a lofty ideal we aspire to, fail quite often, rarely arrive at without leadership instructing us to do so, but upon occasion in history, we are find we are capable of more than we might have imagined.
This doesn't, of course, mean that we shouldn't aspire to the lofty heights to which Jack and Bobby so effortlessly ascended, just that - very often - our immediate leadership concerns are a good deal more prosaic.
It is well to consider whether this vision of leadership, however modest it may sound, is more essential in a president than vaulting language or lofty goals -- and far more difficult to achieve.
After Mr Obama's lofty rhetoric ran up against the immovable obstinacy of an entrenched Republican-majority Congress, America may be ready for leadership by prose rather than through poetry.
