Not really a discussion just more of me learning about US history and telling everyone else.
In answer to the question ,recent scholarship says No.
I don't really want to comment or read anything here.I have near zero in common with many of you.I may return periodically when there's something you need to know.
Near Mutualist/Libertarian Socialist.
The real Washington is far from the picture most have of him.
This is apparently a Man Talk Forum: No Women Allowed!
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King of what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Bob Dylan
Reminds me of Hamilton's suggestion at the Constitutional Convention of there being a "permanent president", among other bizarrely tyrannical ideas.
He was never offered to be King, but there was discussion on what the title of the leader of the country would be.
Scott F: Not really a discussion just more of me learning about US history and telling everyone else. In answer to the question ,recent scholarship says No.
I never heard that version of the story. Instead, in middle school and whatever, they told us that he was "asked" to be the president for a further term but refused because he did not want to be "like a king" or something.
If I wrote it more than a few weeks ago, I probably hate it by now.