[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the ping, afraidfortherepublic, and the post, Reagan79.

No one was ever quite like him. I think this quote sums him up nicely:
"In all history few men who possessed unassailable power have used that power so gently and self-effacingly for what their best instincts told them was the welfare of their neighbors and all mankind."
James Thomas Flexner, in Washington : The Indispensable Man (1984), Introduction, p. xiv.

And let's not forget Martha (referred to once he was CiC and then president as "Lady Washington"). She was always there for him, and theirs was a marriage that helped found this great country.

Here, a painting of their wedding:

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[Old Sarge]

We will not see his like again.

If he’s out there, he’s so disgusted by politics that he refuses to appear.

Or, he’s been identified by the Left, and has already been destroyed.

[Ditto]

James Thomas Flexner, in Washington : The Indispensable Man

For those Freepers interested in our history and the Founding of this country, this book is the best I have ever read. Washington was our gift from God. We would never have been a nation, or at least a nation worth living in, without him.

We all owe him a debt of gratitude.