Is He Just Bein Smart?

George washington was very conscious of appearances all his life, before and while he was president. He reached out to diplomats for advice on how to make sure foreign powers understood that the united states was a legitimate country. One of the things we have is a little book that was kept by a secretary who was actually martha washington's nephew, bartholomew dandridge. So there's tons of stuff about table ornaments, curtains, wine coolers, it's going on and on.