Continuing Lessons from Washington’s ‘Farewell Address’
Gary L. Gregg
February 21, 2019 Updated: February 21, 2019
This Feb. 22 marks the 287th winter since George Washington was born to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. The second son of a moderately successful planter, he would, of course, rise to become one of the most consequential figures of the millennium.
Among his great attributes was his ability to exit his responsibilities on terms that left his station and those around him better than when he began.
Nowhere is that more the case than when he left the presidency in 1797. After establishing the office, setting the essential precedents, keeping the nation out of a foreign war, and loaning his valuable reputation to the cause of the new government, he left behind a “Farewell Address†that continues now, more than 200 years later, to be read each year on the floor of the U.S. Senate. But, how many pay attention to its chastising lessons?
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