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Washington's Task Was To Transform The Improbable Into The Inevitable.

Because He Could Not Afford To Fail, He Could Not Afford To Trust.

Lincoln Once Said That America Was Founded On A Proposition That Was Written By Jefferson In 1776. We Are Really Founded On An Argument About What That Proposition Means.

Chronology, So The Saying Goes, Is The Last Refuge Of The Feeble-minded And The Only Resort For Historians.

Grand Visions, Even Those As Prescient As Washington's, Must Nevertheless Negotiate The Damnable Particularities That History In The Short Run Tosses Up Before History In The Long Run Arrives To Validate The Vision.