George Washington – “I did!”
An evening pause: On this, the birthday of George Washington, let us hear from the man himself. The speaker is an actor, but the words are Washington’s late in his life, reflecting on his life as well as on the future of the nation he more than anyone else helped create.
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America’s Cincinnatus. We were blessed that our first President was probably the greatest.
Yes, Eddie, I would concur in that he was the greatest of our Presidents. If for no other reason than were he not of the character he was, there would have likely been no Republic of “The United States of America.”
My only qualm with him, and I believe he lacked the necessary insight and introspection to glean its essence, was that he did not equate the moral conception of individual rights contained in Jefferson’s Declaration, as being the very foundation of the other political conceptions which, together with the other founders, he was instrumental! Likely the keystone in the arch of their political creation and institutionalizing.
I wonder if our founding father had a Virginian Tidewater accent.