Martha Washington Quotes
Alexander Hamilton
Martha Washington herself endured the winter hardships of Valley Forge with the troops whose morale was much uplifted by her presence. The Tom Cat howled at night attracting females waking her and others. She gave the name as Alexander Hamilton was one of her husband’s key aids and attractive women were constantly visiting him in the camp. He had always had a very active romantic life. There is no record of whether he thought the appellation humorous or was insulted by it.
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, 1731–1802, First, First Lady, Name she gave to a large Tomcat who was always howling at the Valley Forge camp, Quoted by Robert Watson, C-SPAN, Book TV, March 10, 2013
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Adams liked hardly anyone. Washington, his fellow Federalist was President when Adams was Vice President. He had little use for fellow Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton. See {621582} . Washington was by no means illiterate. He was an excellent writer, and was a trained surveyor who also had strong mathematical skills. The founding fathers were an amazingly well educated group of men, and Washington was about average in that rarefied atmosphere. Jefferson and Hamilton who arguably were far more learned than Adams, and who worked with Washington in his cabinet, never complained about Washington's intellectual or education capability. The problem was Adams who was critical of almost all.
he always called him by his first name The name Mad Anthony Wayne stuck.
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Madison was the first Presidential Speech Writer.
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Martha Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington served as the inaugural First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime, she was often referred to as "Lady Washington".
