George Washington has been deified and simplified as part of our national myth. Turns out he was really great. And I don’t care if he “never told a lie” and confessed to his father that he had cut down a cherry tree.
His Farewell Address (actually a letter) was a Nostradamus-level prediction of 2026, and a Pericles-level analysis of the state of democracy. Thanks to my obsession with accurate quotation, I simply wish to note he didn’t write it alone: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison drafted it; Washington would not have performed it had he not agreed with the sentiment.
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