Oh, Laz likes beards all right. You often see him out on a date with one at his arm.
Washington’s greatest attribute, sorely needed for our time, was his ability to give up power.
He had the good sense to prefer the quiet solitude of farming to politics, and upon his election as president, he blurted out to a close friend that he must, “bid adieu to happiness,” as “public life will be a more distressing one than any I have known yet.”
Giving up the power of the presidency after eight years was the best gift he could have given the United States, and his example lasted almost 150 years, until the power hungry administration of FDR.
This was the main reason he was so admired in Europe by such celebrities as Napoleon and, believe it or not, George III of England who said he could hardly believe it, but if true, Washington should be regarded as “the greatest man in the world.”
I left that door wide open, didn’t I? LOL
I have only two things to say.
1. Shh.
2. Are we still on tonight?