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Article: Commentary: This I believe.(George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt )(Column)
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- Accounting Today
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- September 18, 2006
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Historians generally agree that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were our greatest presidents. Recently, there has been a plethora of books and tapes telling the story of the place in American history that each occupies.
I learned that George Washington's literacy skills were somewhat limited and that he frequently relied on Alexander Hamilton for help with his important letters and speeches. Nor was I aware that during that horrendous, freezing winter at Valley Forge, Washington ate corn mush just as his hungry, shoeless troops did, and that his wife, the aristocratic Martha Washington, mended the torn uniforms of soldiers during ...