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To: GOPcapitalist
Having higher regard for a person does not mean they are greater friends. Certainly not when one is repeatedly turned to for political advice over the decades. That was certainly not the case with Fairfax. One of the reasons Washington admired Hamilton was because of his "intuitively great judgment" which W called upon for over two decades.

You don't think much about what is said because you are just so anxious to dispute my comments. One can have the highest regard for someone without even being a personal friend. I have the highest regard for President Bush but he is not my personal friend.

Regard is not always personal. Nor is it synonymous with friendship. I never claimed Hamilton was Washington's greatest friend just that he had higher regard for no man.
819 posted on 09/11/2003 7:33:07 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree. Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Having higher regard for a person does not mean they are greater friends.

Playing fast and loose with the words again, eh fake-it? First it was washington had no greater friend than Hamilton..but that didn't work for you because he did - Bryan Fairfax. Next it was Washington held nobody in higher regard than Hamilton...but that didn't work for you either because he did - again Bryan Fairfax. Now you're back to the best friends line and once again I will simply point out the fact that Washington's friendship with Bryan Fairfax was of significantly longer duration and far greater personal depth than anything with Hamilton. That would make him a closer friend than Hamilton.

Certainly not when one is repeatedly turned to for political advice over the decades.

Hamilton was professionally tasked to give Washington political advice and in his years as a cabinet member had that very item as his central job description.

That was certainly not the case with Fairfax.

Yes it was. They discussed their personal beliefs on root political matters at length. They even ended up on opposite sides in the revolution and discussed it with each other, yet remained close friends throughout.

You don't think much about what is said because you are just so anxious to dispute my comments.

No. I simply take notice of your increasingly absurd word games then take you to task over them.

820 posted on 09/11/2003 7:58:34 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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