Sublime

As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7

Like Somervell, Lee was an inveterate empire builder who could be relied upon to provide an army with everything from safety pins and condoms to main battle tanks.

Rounding out the group were Thomas Nelson, Jr., son of the late Virginia governor, and Washington’s young nephew Robert Lewis, who had escorted his aunt Martha to New York. Among members of Congress, James Madison stood in a class by himself in his advisory capacity to Washington. When he ran for Congress, Madison had consulted Washington about how

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His decision saved the United States from what would have been a military disaster.

For his evening reading he stuffed into his briefcase a narrative by an old hunter in the Southwest who had fought Apaches.