[Tax-chick]

His letters and notebooks show that he viewed his temper as a weakness in a leader and endeavored to control it.

He was also a famously graceful dancer.

[cripplecreek]

Washington’s Rules of civility should be required reading by all politicians.

[ripnbang]

Yes, I agree. I was commenting that we shouldn’t hold him up as a bastion of verbal temperance. Great patriot, general and President, just not a lightweight when it came to temper and “purity” in language.