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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
The painting also pinpointed an important quirk of Washington's face: the lazy right eye that slid off into the corner while the left eye stared straight ahead. To prepare for the equestrian
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respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a nation.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
Reproaching his slave carpenters, he said, "There is not to be found so idle a set of rascals."28 Of a slave named Betty who worked as a spinner in the mansion, he complained that "a more lazy, deceitful and impudent hussy is not to be found in the United States."29 He"
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Unable to curtail his free-handed spending and with his crops faring poorly, he started out 1786 with a paltry eighty-six pounds in cash.
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Unfortunately, Greene's personal finances were in no less disorderly a state than those of the country at large: he had accumulated such heavy debts guaranteeing contracts for the southern army that it gave him "much pain and preyed heavily upon my spirits."38 He also revealed to Washington in August 1784 that for two months he had experienced a "dangerous and disagree{able} pain" in his chest, which sounds like heart disease.39 In June 1786, while at his estate near Savannah, Georgia, he was seized at the table with a "violent pain in his eye and head," followed by his death a few days later.
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could see masts of submerged ships poking up from the water-and seeded the East River with spiked obstacles to thwart vessels.
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23 Destiny had now conferred upon Washington a pivotal place in
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I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices which are imbibed against him."
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justice, and Samuel, a plantation owner, also owned nearby houses.
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currency, so he wouldn't be seen as questioning American credit, but by the summer of 1779 he could no longer afford these massive losses and discontinued the practice. The previous winter Washington had been sufficiently confident of his troops to risk a six-week stay in Philadelphia, but he now felt compelled to stick close to his restive men, "to stem a torrent which seems ready to overwhelm us.
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In addition to his better-known title of Father of His Country, Washington is also revered in certain circles as the Father of the American Mule.
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One thing that hasn't aroused dispute is the exemplary nature of Washington's religious tolerance. He shuddered at the notion of exploiting religion for partisan purposes or showing favoritism for certain denominations. As president, when writing to Jewish, Baptist, Presbyterian, and other congregations-he officially saluted twenty-two major religious groups-he issued eloquent statements on religious tolerance. He was so devoid of spiritual bias that his tolerance even embraced atheism. When he needed to hire a carpenter and a bricklayer at Mount Vernon, he stated that "if they are good workmen," they could be "Mahometans, Jews, or Christian of any sect, or they may be atheists."24
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