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In 1790, George Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, to present his vision for America as a country where “bigotry finds no sanction” and “persecution no ...
The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.
It was, indeed, called Washington’s Vision, and was written by Charles Wesley Alexander, a Philadelphia journalist who wrote under the pen name of Wesley Bradshaw.
And no one is more appealing than George Washington. Tom Nichols in The Atlantic was only the latest in a long line of writers seeking and finding in Washington a vision of moral rectitude and ...
Washington may be “all around us,” on money and the name of the U.S. capital, but Americans generally don’t understand him, said Doug Bradburn, the president and chief executive of George ...
From George Washington to now: Presidency and campaigns explained The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, ...
Washington devised the blue and buff colors of the uniform while serving at the Second Continental Congress in 1775, just prior to being named Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. In ...