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	Biography of President George Washington
		Washington was born at 10 AM on February 22, 1732 at the family estate on the banks of the Potomac River, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
		Washington was the overwhelming choice to be the President of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
		When the President came to Congress to "consult" on the making of foreign treaties, he felt he was treated beneath the dignity of the office of the Presidency.
	www.multied.com /Bio/presidents/washington.html (992 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Washington was born on Feb. 22, 1732, in Westmoreland Co., Va., the eldest son of Augustine Washington (1694?–1743), a Virginia planter, and Mary Ball Washington (1708–89).
		Washington’s contribution to American victory was enormous, and analysis of his leadership reveals much about the nature of the military and political conflict.
		Washington provided his contemporaries with concrete evidence of the value of the citizen soldier, the enlightened gentleman farmer, and the realistic nationalist in stabilizing the culture and politics of the young republic.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/presidents/washington_george.html (2360 words)

	Citizen Washington
		It was Washington’s debt policy that benefited the urban "stock-jobbers" at the expense of the rural farmers.
		The Washington of legend is Washington the underdog, not Washington the partisan administrator.
		Washington is important not as a president, but simply as a man. He was a man who risked his vast fortune and his life to fight for what many saw as a lost cause.
	www.lewrockwell.com /mcmaken/mcmaken21.html (788 words)

	George Washington - EnchantedLearning.com
		In 1775, Washington was chosen as the Commander in Chief of the Colonial Army.
		Washington was unanimously elected President of the United States of America by electors in early 1789 and again in 1792.
		Washington's first inauguration took place in New York City, New York (which was the first capital of the USA, from 1789 to 1790).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /history/us/pres/washington (1156 words)

	Welcome to the White House
		President George W. Bush is joined by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, left, at a meeting with local leaders Thursday, March 1, 2007 in Biloxi, Miss., on the recovery and reconstruction efforts underway in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
		President Bush on Thursday said, "I committed to the people of this part of the world and the Gulf Coast that the federal government would fund recovery and stay committed to the recovery.
		President Bush on Thursday said, "There's still work to be done here in Mississippi, and the Governor and I are going to go listen to some of the local officials describe to me what's on their mind and how we can continue to help.
	www.whitehouse.gov (691 words)

	Internet Public Library: POTUS
		Washington posed for Stuart's portrait, which is now on the one dollar bill.
		Washington has the distinction of being the only president to be elected unanimously by the electoral college.
		Washington had one remaining tooth at the time of his inauguration.
	www.ipl.org /div/potus/gwashington.html (877 words)

	President's Day
		The original version of the holiday was in commemoration of George Washington's birthday in 1796 (the last full year of his presidency).
		Washington, according to the calendar that has been used since at least the mid-18th century, was born on February 22, 1732.
		One of these was Washington's Birthday, the observation of which was shifted to the third Monday in February each year whether or not it fell on the 22nd.
	www.patriotism.org /presidents_day (261 words)

	1st President, George Washington
		George Washington, the first President of the United States, was born February 22, 1732, near Pope's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the Washington family farm.
		When he was young, Washington wanted to be a sailor, but his mother would not let him go to sea, so he became a surveyor.
		Washington's terms were from 1789 to 1793 and from 1793 to 1797.
	www.presidentialmuseums.com /Presidents/1.htm (225 words)

	Washington Monument: George Washington: President
		Washington left on April the 16th traveling to New York City, the temporary capital of the new Republic.
		Washington, however, demurred, feeling that it was best to live in "peace and amity with all the inhabitants of the earth." George Washington's problems with Spain, France and the pirates of North Africa were left to his successor.
		Washington suppressed the actions of Genet by informing him that the new nation was a member of the family of Nations.
	www.nps.gov /wamo/gw/president.htm (1099 words)

	President George Washington: Health & Medical History
		Washington was left as the only person able to distribute the wounded general's orders, and led the retreat.
		Washington's height, sterility, large hands, pockmarks, plus certain personality features and even his dental problems have led to the suggestion he had a syndrome associated with an XYY chromosome karyotype [13c].
		Washington's hearing worsened in 1789 to the point where he could not hear ordinary conversation [1].
	www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g01.htm (2432 words)

	George Washington's Mount Vernon - Part 4. President and Back Home
		President Washington felt he had to make careful decisions so the new government would succeed.
		President Washington also helped plan a new capital for the nation that was named Washington in his honor.
		Washington agreed to serve a second term as president, even though he wanted to go home to Mount Vernon.
	www.mountvernon.org /learn/meet_george/index.cfm/pid/208 (487 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents: George Washington: Biography
		The eldest of six children from his father's second marriage, George Washington was born into the landed gentry in 1732 at Wakefield Plantation, VA. Until reaching 16 years of age, he lived there and at other plantations along the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, including the one that later became known as Mount Vernon.
		The next year, Washington began his military career when the royal governor appointed him to an adjutantship in the militia, as a major.
		Yet, usually leaning upon Hamilton for advice, Washington supported his plan for the assumption of state debts, concurred in the constitutionality of the bill establishing the Bank of the United States, and favored enactment of tariffs by Congress to provide federal revenue and protect domestic manufacturers.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/P/gw1/about/washingt.htm (1331 words)

	White House Facts
		Presidents can express their individual style in how they decorate some parts of the house and in how they receive the public during their stay.
		President James Polk (1845-49) was the first President to have his photograph taken...
		President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) was not only the first President to ride in an automobile, but also the first President to travel outside the country when he visited Panama...
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/facts.html (658 words)

	A Guardian -- George Washington
		Washington's first great feat was leading the rag-tag Continental army to victory over the powerful British expeditionary forces in the American colonies.
		Washington was instead a brilliant quartermaster with highly developed logistical skills, and what concerned him was equipping and sheltering his soldiers, and as far as possible keeping them out of harm's way.
		In his lifelong devotion to his country, George Washington can be thought of as the quintessential civic-minded citizen, or social Guardian, as Plato called this sort of person.
	keirsey.com /washington.html (432 words)

	President George Washington
		President Washington was the only president who was unanimously elected.
		President Georgre Washington did not live in the White House, the capital was in Philadelphia at that time.
		President Washington was one of seven Presidents from Virginia.
	www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/Presidents/washington.html (412 words)

	A.P.E. - George Washington
		When Washington attended the Second Continental Congress as a delegate from Virginia, he was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
		Washington knew that as the first President he would be setting important precedents.
		President Washington felt that his duty was to allow Congress to dictate policy and law.
	library.thinkquest.org /11492/cgi-bin/pres.cgi/washington_george (209 words)

	Presidential Avenue: George Washington
		Washington's father, Augustine, purchased the land in 1718 and built the house in 1726.
		Franks charged Washington $131.56, which included Franks traveling costs to and from Bethlehem, the cost of furniture and bedding for his own family, the loss of a flatiron, one fork, four plates, three ducks, four fowl, a bushel of potatoes, and one hundred bushels of hay.
		Washington left some of his wealth to a school for poor and orphaned children and other amounts to support the construction of a national university in Washington, D. His two grandchildren received large, choice tracts of farmland in Virginia, and he left his numerous friends gifts drawn from his household and personal effects.
	www.presidentialavenue.com /gw.cfm (2135 words)

	George Washington
		Washington acted quickly, and the plan eventually collapsed due to lack of public support as well as to Washington's overall superiority to his rivals.
		Washington, whose policy of neutrality angered the pro-French Jeffersonians, was horrified by the excesses of the French Revolution and enraged by the tactics of Edmond Genet, the French minister in the United States, which amounted to foreign interference in American politics.
		Message of President John Adams nominating George Washington to be Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of the Armies raised or to be raised in the United States.
	www.george-washington.org (3252 words)

	George Washington \| First President of the United States
		He served as commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, as president of the convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution, and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States.
		In his eight years as president, Washington would need every ounce of his countrymen's well-known adulation as he presided over a government torn by factionalism and still threatened by European imperialism.
		Recounts Washington's accomplished life from childhood to manhood, from surveyor of the frontier to leader of revolution and on to the Presidency.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96feb/washington.html (614 words)

	The Old Exchange - George Washington
		Washington told those assembled he was ready to attend the festivities, asked [Arnoldus] Vanderhorst [the intendant or mayor] to proceed, and said he would follow.
		Washington sat beneath the first--"an emblematical painting representing commerce distributing plenty over the globe." The second hung within the hall’s center arch--a large, handsomely-decorated model ship, which served as a 136-lamp chandelier.
		Washington said good-bye to the council members, then Vanderhorst mounted his horse and joined the northbound cavalcade, and the procession rode into the outskirts of the city.
	www.oldexchange.com /html/GeorgeWashington.html (2367 words)

	Presidents' Day or Washington's Birthday?
		But many Americans believe that this holiday is now called "Presidents' Day," in honor of both Presidents Washington and Lincoln, whose birthdays are Feb. 22 and Feb. 12, respectively.
		George Washington was born on Feb. 11, 1731, according to the Julian calendar.
		Meanwhile, there was President Lincoln's birthday on Feb. 12, which never became a federal holiday but was celebrated as a legal holiday in many states outside the old Confederacy.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/washington1.html (574 words)

	President George Washington
		George Washington was born on February 22, 1732.
		Washington did not want to serve a second term, but people begged him so he did it again.
		Washington decided that the Bill of Rights should be added to the Constitution.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/presidents/washington.htm (370 words)

	Biography of George Washington
		On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
		When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.
		Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, for he died of a throat infection December 14, 1799.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/gw1.html (627 words)

	The University of Washington: Office of the President
		President Mark Emmert comments about a shortage of office space on campus and the purchase of UW Tower properties.
		President's Blog: In 2006, President Emmert chronicled his travels to China and Korea in a series of posts to his Weblog.
		The president of the University of Washington is Mark A. Emmert, a Washington state native who returned to his alma mater in 2004 with a goal of expanding the institution's stellar national and international standing.
	www.washington.edu /president (208 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		WASHINGTON — The National Guard and Reserves don't get enough money or equipment and are left out of important planning for national emergencies, an independent panel concluded Thursday, long after the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina exposed serious stresses on the services.
		WASHINGTON — Just hours after floating the idea of cutting $20 billion from President Bush's $142 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad was overruled by fellow Democrats Thursday.
		WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has filed charges against David Hicks, an Australian citizen suspected of aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan and the first terrorism-war era detainee to be charged by the Pentagon under new rules for military commissions.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/digest.htm (436 words)

	FAREWELL ADDRESS (1796)
		George Washington had been the obvious choice to be the first president of the United States, and indeed, many people had supported ratification of the Constitution on the assumption that Washington would be the head of the new government.
		By all measures, Washington proved himself a capable, even a great, president, helping to shape the new government and leading the country skillfully through several crises, both foreign and domestic.
		Washington, like many of his contemporaries, did not understand or believe in political parties, and saw them as fractious agencies subversive of domestic tranquility.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/49.htm (3333 words)

	George Washington
		Washington thought he would be a good man to be general of the army, so he showed up in a uniform he had designed himself.
		Washington was always trying to become a better person.
		It is said of Washington he was "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
	www.gardenofpraise.com /ibdwash.htm (1057 words)

	American Experience \| The Presidents \| George Washington \| PBS
		The latter led to a minor revolt in Pennsylvania, the Whiskey Rebellion, and Washington mobilized troops from neighboring states to quell the uprising.
		Washington did not mean to establish a precedent, however, by stepping down after two terms; his reasons for doing so were personal.
		Washington never understood the necessity of the political parties that developed during his presidency and warned against partisanship.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/presidents/01_washington/index.html (285 words)

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