Why George Washington Is Still My Favorite President

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Mr. Beat tells the story of the greatest President in American history, George Washington.

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You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
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His Excellency- George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
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Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
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The Indian World of George Washington. The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation. by Colin Calloway
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https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/biography/
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/family/siblings/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-young-george-washington-started-war-180973076/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/george-washington/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20747086/anne-washington_lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_George_Washington
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4249070
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/first-in-war-first-in-peace-and-first-in-the-hearts-of-his-countrymen/
https://millercenter.org/president/washington/impact-and-legacy
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/allegheny-expedition/

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Not only is George Washington single handedly the most important person to the founding of the United States, I’d argue he’s the most important person in American history. Many of the precedents he set are still here today.

After the American Revolution, he easily could have been King of the United States. Americans loved him so much that it would have been a no brainer. The world had known pretty nothing but kings and dictators throughout most of human history. But nope, George turned it down. He had no ambitions to be a king.

Washington was an undeniably outstanding leader. Sure, big reasons why included his charisma and command for attention, as well as his virtue, dignity, and open mindedness. But his greatest strength was that he was a Uniter. Someone who brought very different people together. He was the glue that kept the factions together in the early years of the Republic, and the perfect person for the job of guiding the new country as it attempted to figure out how to move forward. Simply put, he was in a category all his own, and it’s hard to ever imagine another President accomplishing what he did.