To: ripnbang; cripplecreek
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.
39 posted on
01/20/2016 4:02:57 AM PST by
Tax-chick
(Onions are a woman's weapon.)
To: Tax-chick
Washington’s Rules of civility should be required reading by all politicians.
41 posted on
01/20/2016 4:04:50 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: Tax-chick
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.
45 posted on
01/20/2016 4:08:08 AM PST by
ripnbang
("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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