Isn’t it an amazing place to visit?
We were able to go upstairs to Martha’s room (where she lived, in the months before passing).
The view from the back of the home, of the Patomac River, is breathtaking.
Very much enjoyed it and it was a lovely day to take in the views of the Potomac which, as you say, are breathtaking. Also liked the gardens very much as well.
George Washington was such an illiterate, stupid man that he was able to defeat the greatest fighting force then on earth. He was such a dolt that he had a novel, eight year strategy that didn’t defend fixed points but knew that the goal was to keep his army intact, and it worked. Such an idiot that he devised a policy of keeping out of crazed, needless foreign wars that the Bush family would have been wise to emulate. Such a boob that he set the standard for stepping away from the most powerful office in the country by insisting on serving only two terms in office - an act that his arch rival King George III would say was the marvel of the world. None of her criticism are novel - GW’s acts did start the French & Indian War but he was the only officer who didn’t panic on the field. He wasn’t overly educated but most people of that day weren’t and he made a far better president than John Adams, who was brilliant but despised. Yes, he had slaves, but that was the standard of the day in the western hemisphere. I am getting damned tired of the Howard Zinn “historians’ of the world getting prime play when they hate this country and its history. Why the Daily Mail touts this mediocre writer is beyond me, unless these royal lovers are trying to downplay another story on the front page, that there are direct witnesses of their beloved Prince Andrew groping underage girls who spoke no English and may not have known who he was at Sir Jeffrey Epstein’s villa in the Virgin Islands.