It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
I'm not a Washington person.
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