George Washington Leadership

George Washington is credited for many of the traditions we have today, and with good reason. He was a humble yet calculating man. When George Washington was raised by his mother Mary, where he learned to become the head of his modest farmhouse. Some students are surprised even, that Washington never received much more than a fifth grade education. Although never receiving a formal education, he would eventually be known to all Americans as the “Father of Our Country”.

The first aspect of George Washington’s presidency I will be evaluating is his character and leadership. For this aspect I give him an A+. This is because of the undebatable, incredible, and heartwarming sacrifices George Washington made for the good of his country,

However, Washington knew, and felt in his heart, the great impending necessity of his presidency. He took it upon himself to step up to the plate and show the next thousand generations how to deal with the immense power of Chief Executive. When the ballots had been decided, Washington made his way to the capitol, Philadelphia at the time, and had been hoping to encounter no more crowds after many parades and public festivities, when he was greeted with his worst nightmare. It was not well known, but George Washington was a very humble character, preferring his own homely estate on Mount. Vernon, which only adds to the reasoning behind his A+ grading. Upon viewing the crowds, Washington politely smiled and bore through it, but the next morning his personal cavalry came to take him through the crowds to continue on their extravagant journey, they found “Washington had grown tired of the jubilation...they discovered he [Washington] had sneaked out of the city an hour earlier…” (Chernow, 558) When asked why he replied with the most humble words a president has ever spoken. Washington said “To avoid even the appearance of pomp or vain parade.” (Chernow, 558) Yet another of his many fine examples of a “A+” characteristic was

Upon extensive research, I will give George Washington a “A”.+ For Washington was the leading precedent for all to come, majorly so because of the horrifying lack of economical development. In spite of that, he took it all in a stride. For one of his first prime examples of becoming a precedent was his separation of executive and legislative branches. After being offended greatly by the legislative branch, Washington swore never to go in there again. Thus he successfully made a long lasting impression. Another awe-inspiring instance of the amazing method George Washington handled domestic policy was the famous, Whiskey Rebellion. The settlers, upon hearing of the tax back in 1790, already formed a hatred towards the tax on the production of alcohol, as they began forms of protest. At first the protest were silent but they “boiled over in western Pennsylvania with attacks on tax collectors and the formation of several well-armed resistance movements.”(Miller Center) In a last minute decision to save the integrity of the country George Washington ordered a militia from other states to calm Pennsylvania. Thankfully, Washington’s plan worked. As it says on Miller Center.org, “He then traveled to the site of the troubles to