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Gray Williams Honors Washington as Nation Builder at State College
Gray Williams delivers a long address to State Teachers College seniors tracing George Washington’s role from frontier leadership to American union. He portrays Washington as a rational founder who tempered faction and built a workable republic, guiding the Constitution’s birth and the young nation through trials, while noting Washington’s personal virtues and faults with measured reverence.
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Mount Vernon
John Adams
Virginia
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Martha Curtis
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Henry Lee
James Madison
John Jay
Edmund Randolph
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George Mason
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Jedidiah Morse
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