in past years such feelings of optimism could always be directly levied at the door of the great leader , and after his death , at that of his son , the dear leader , it would have been blasphemous to attribute the responsibility for such goodness to anyone else , but now , since the great reawakening , there were new heroes , and , objectively assessed , lee considered that the largest part of responsibility for his current feelings of well-being could only be attributed to one person , the man that some co-workers jokingly called new leader : garnet g. wendelson .