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Contents 1 Templates 1.1 Peer review and collaboration 1.2 Notices 1.3 To do 2 Accent 3 Slavery 4 General Inaccuracy 5 Children 6 Concerning the "Presidency..." section 7 Add category 8 Spoken article help

[edit] Templates

[edit] Peer review and collaboration

George Washington has been a U.S. Collaboration of the Week on the two weeks starting from May 22, 2006. Please feel free to help contribute to the article in any way possible.

[edit] Notices

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[edit] To do

To-do list for George Washington:

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Information from bias sources such as "diest.com" should be deleted. The section on the American Revolution needs to use more summary style More use of footnotes! Use them where they aren't used! If you added print sources to the References list, go back and add footnotes when necessary. Certain lists should be converted to prose How speeches / addresses / appointments were seen by historians Add information in the section about his presidency Add information about his Native American policies as president: Treaty of New York, Northwest Indian War, Indian Intercourse Act, etc. What was the role he played in developing the executive branch? Information about diffusing the crisis over federal assumption of states' war debt is needed Information about the selection of the area for the federal district is needed How Washington had a tendency towards formal and ceremonious things Expand how he was caught between Jefferson and Hamilton Information about personal relationships with other founders is needed Information on Washington's popularity before, during, and after his presidency is needed French and Indian War section should be trimmed down quite a bit. In the section on slavery lets add a reference to his Chef Hercules. Who also escaped while serving the at the Presidential Mansion in Philadelphia. As each bulleted issue is resolved, feel free to remove it from the list

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[edit] 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)

[edit] Slavery

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.244.202 (talk) 18:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC) 

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

this isntt truee !!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.134.217 (talk) 01:57, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Add category

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

[edit] Spoken article help

Hello, I am in contact with a volunteer who is trying to record a spoken version of this article, and he needs help with the pronunciation of certain words. Is there anyone here who could possibly speak with him on the phone (or even just leave him a voice mail) to confirm pronunciation? Here are the words: Culpeper County, adjutant, Fort Le Boeuf, Fort Duquesne, Tanacharison, Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, Battle of Jumonville Glen, Monongahela, Pamunkey River, Martha Dandridge Custis, Pamunkey River, Daniel Parke Custis, Fraunces Tavern, Edmond-Charles Genêt, the Marquis de La Fayette, Mohammedans, Touro Synagogue, laudanum. If so, please email me and I will pass along his contact info (he is a professional voice actor). Thanks! howcheng {chat} 17:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)