About George Washington

"Far more than most persons, he deliberately crafted his character, fiercely determined from his youth to reach the highest places and yet be one who "always walked on a straight line." He had faults or weaknesses even so. He tended to be almost morbidly concerned for his "honor," i.e., his reputation, and his standing in society, and hence was overly sensitive to criticism. As he aged, he grew more suspicious of others and at times self-righteous and stuffy. A strong, inborn shyness, surprising in so public a figure, led him to set a distance in relations with others or assume an air of reserve which many interpreted as coldness. Even those who knew him well agreed that he contained some mysterious inner space. He had a keen nose for money and liked living in style. Though generous in private life, he could be a hard man in a business deal. Left to himself, he tended to fall into moodiness, for which his remedy was physical activity and good company: he and Martha entertained dinner guests daily for years at a stretch. He was no prude and had a sense of humor, but he did not sparkle as a wit nor shine as a public speaker. He read to learn what he needed to know—mostly military and agricultural manuals—not especially to enrich his mind. He was intelligent, more so than he thought he was, but lacked the brilliance of a Jefferson or Madison. His meager formal education had left him without a rounded high culture, which embarrassed him and contributed to his reserve. And he had to spend psychic energy to control his temper; his rages, though rare, were terrible, and he could swear up a storm. "


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"Washington, George (1732-1799)." DISCovering Biography. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Gold. Thomson Gale. HIGH TECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL. 8 Jan. 2008 http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=SRC-1&docId=EJ2102101920&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=sand07018&version=1.0.


George Washington was a unique man renouned for his peacemaking and conflict resolution skills. He was known for many things, careful deliberation amongst many things was his fortay. He listened carefully thought for a while before making the fairist most benificial decisions and deliberations alone whenever possible. John Adams, said this of Washington "He seeks information from all quarters and judges more independently than any man I ever knew." Having finally made his decision, he was totally committed, swift, and tenacious in execution, sometimes at the expense of flexibility. He liked his corn biscuits, he was a meat and potatoes type of man and he enjoyed entertaining guests at his home Mount Vernon in Vermont with his wife Martha at home nearly everyday of his life. He was a complex man who waged many a war, was the first leader of the military. So much so that he was later named the General of The Military. He was at one point asked if he wanted to be a president for a third consecutive term but, refused because he felt that if he did accept the offer, that it would be too similar to a dictatorship and he wanted a true democracy, fair and balanced. He was also a Mason and belonged to the organization of Freemasonary. He freed his slaves during his lifetime, and was an introverted man that had a strategeic military abilities that gave him a skills of accuratly judging a mans true character and working with it so that he could deal with them and relate to them in a war setting as well as diplomatically handlung disputes when dealing with politicians and the men that worked on the Amendments and The Constitution.

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