George Washington: More bling than Mitt Romney
When Washington died, the phrase which spread the country was: "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." While this may be almost universally true today, it was not when the man held office.
When Washington died, the phrase which spread the country was: "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." While this may be almost universally true today, it was not when the man held office.
In the summer of 1755, 23-year-old George Washington galloped back and forth across a blood-soaked battlefield near present-day Pittsburgh, trying heroically but unsuccessfully to rally the panicked British force in which he
One of the reasons we have such a high sense of religious liberty in America is because the man whose birth we celebrate today–George Washington–valued religious liberty as the first of our political institutions. From the beginning of his long
In fact, there would be none at all if we relied on the technique George Washington used at Mount Vernon, his Virginia estate that's perched on the banks of the Potomac River. His source of ice was the frozen river. Given the warm winter we've had here
