No one was ever quite like him. I think this quote sums him up nicely:
"In all history few men who possessed unassailable power have used that power so gently and self-effacingly for what their best instincts told them was the welfare of their neighbors and all mankind."
James Thomas Flexner, in Washington : The Indispensable Man (1984), Introduction, p. xiv.
And let's not forget Martha (referred to once he was CiC and then president as "Lady Washington"). She was always there for him, and theirs was a marriage that helped found this great country.
Here, a painting of their wedding:
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