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David Perlmutter's avatar

You can talk all you want about Washington being an "evil" slaveholder, but he had more class and gentlemanly dignity than the vast majority of his successors as President.

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Christopher Dake's avatar

I just generally like how everyone spoke in well-constructed sentences back then. I imagine his address was off the top of his head.

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