Fred Harteis News - Don Wilson, “Few presidents are as well memorialized as our first one, George Washington. The Washington Monument’s primary purpose was to help us remember Washington’s unselfish devotion to America and to principal.   An additional lesson of the man and the monument is the importance of persistence in a worthwhile cause.  After Washington’s death Congress started “talking about it” but many years passed before action was taken. Some things related to politics remain unchanged from the 1800s”

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