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Some such, IIRC.

I think there’s some painting of him in full regalia.

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As it turns out, not a few U.S. Presidents have been Freemasons.

But look at the ideological contrasts between two of them, George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Their basic philosophies of government and their respective understandings of the scope of its power and authority — not to mention the policies they effected — could not be in sharper contrast. This is a "night and day" situation.

I cannot see how either man could have been relying on a common, fundamental root in the ideas and practices of Freemasonry, if the outcomes they achieved are so starkly different.

One was on the model of John Locke (who may have been a Freemason); the other was on the model of Karl Marx — who was no Freemason.

Perhaps the historic fear of the influence of Freemasonry on the U.S. government is a tad overblown? It seems that way to me — JMHO, FWIW.

Thank you ever so much for writing, dear brother in Christ!