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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.)
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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.)
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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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