“If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near Head Quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favoured by the Muses, and to whom Nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great Respect, etc.”

— George Washington

1770s, Letter to Phyllis Wheatley (1776)

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first President of the United States 1732–1799

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