Talk:George Washington

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Accent

Do we know which accent George Washington had ? Mackem or Geordie ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.1.176.4 (talk) 15:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Slavery

Uh.....the section on his role in slavery is shamefully biased and brief, mentions nothing of his insistance on slaves who fled across to the British lines being returned (and the subsequent British snub of this request which enraged him) and even tries to paint him in a good light when the reality what vastly different!

Lets have this page a fairer, truer reflection of historical fact and less as a national ego-massaging myth which doesn't travel outside the US and is even losing impact here.

Anyone who can stand by such blatant patriotic guff and call it a good article should be ashamed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.244.202 (talk) 18:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

General Inaccuracy

This entire page is littered with inaccuracy. Theres no mention of his scandals or sharp fall from popularity. He did not received 100% of the vote, he only had 69. Also many mentions of Washington being a republican, republicans were his primary political opponent(mainly the jefferson democratic republicans)Jayl1980 (talk) 14:03, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I've looked more into it, Washington did win 100% of the states but not the vote, this was his first scandal as it was later discovered that Alexander Hamilton had threatened and bribed the college to swing votes away from John Adams, Hamilton thought Adams was to bullheaded and couldn't be controlled. There were rumors that Washington didn't win the election at all. Also the final scandel which ended his political career was called the Jay Scandel, it followed the signing of Jay's Treaty with England which was extremely unpopular.Jayl1980 (talk) 05:20, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

He threw a rock across the Rappahannock River NOT the Potomac. The Rappahanock flows by his boyhood home near Fredericksburg.

Children

This site: http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=28 shows that George had 2 children? Your Wiki entry says he had none but had 2 nephews...which is it? This is why wiki's are bad. More often than not the data in the entries is incorrect. What a waste.

Indeed, he had two children. This needs to be corrected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Codewerdna (talk • contribs) 17:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

These two were stepchildren from his (widowed) wife's former marriage; they were not descended from George Washington. The source, which I believe is reliable, is http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/family-george-washington.html . —Adavidb 01:01, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

People were actually vandalizing this page? The evil of man knows no bounds.George Washington Head (talk) 19:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Washington had no children of his own. Moreover the Bassett mentioned in "Personal Life" was apparently a nephew, and the reference takes us to a page on Warren G. Harding!68.72.94.110 (talk) 19:26, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Concerning the "Presidency..." section

My history teacher mentioned several letters where George Washington told his wife that he wanted to be president, but accept it "humbly". The article says that he did not want to be president.

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.39.82.181 (talk) 17:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

"The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $25,000 a year — a large sum in 1789. Washington, already wealthy, declined the salary, since he valued his image as a selfless public servant. At the urging of Congress, however, he ultimately accepted the payment. A dangerous precedent could have been set otherwise, as the founding fathers wanted future presidents to come from a large pool of potential candidates — not just those citizenswho could afford to do the work for free." -This is also inaccurate, Washington knew he could not afford to have the lavish lifestyle he wanted with the pay they offered. His expenses for his presidential residency and his regular home far exceeded the $25,000. Supposedly congress forced him to take the set amount of money because he was bankrupting the coffers with his "only expenses". I wish I had a good refernce to point to, but this is from my AP history course in Highs School, and was repeated in my College courses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.213.5.135 (talk) 06:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Add category

Someone please add Category:American farmers to this article. --AmericanAgrarian (talk) 23:59, 22 April 2008 (UTC)