indispensable for a number of reasons. In the book,

"Washington The Indispensable Man," James Thomas

Flexnor points out many of the reasons he is

indispensable, such as the fact that he never quit, he

let his slaves go, he wouldn't side with the British or

the French, and he didn't accept being president for

the third term. These points may not seem to show his

indispensability, but if Washington wasn't our first

president who knows where we would be right now

(probably be speaking French or in tyranny).

Washington was criticized for a lot of things he

did, and he was also thanked for everything later.

When he would get criticized for something he wouldn't

quit or give in to what they want because they

criticized him. During the Jay treaty Thomas Paine

insults Washington in a peroration saying, "As to you,

sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have

been to me and that in the day of danger) and a

hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to

decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor;

whether you abandoned good principles or whether you

had any." pg.354. Even when all odds are against him

lay a foundation to prepare the rising generation for a

his since he had been in the government which was not

example to America that the exchange of a leader could

"he would rather be in his grave than be in his present

French or the British, and most importantly, set an

was ever going to be the same. John Adams became the

expressing the hope that it might lead to that "peace

be peaceful by not accepting a third term.

done on the purest motives." pg.295. Washington said,

is the freeing of his slaves. He wished to see some

plan adopted that would free the blacks, "by slow,

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