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because they really ultimately
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brought the colonies closer together
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in a shared sense of crisis.
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As George Washington put it
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in his typical kind of meandering,
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indirect way--Washington is not always the best wordsmith.
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Washington had very good people writing for him.
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He had good speech makers, that Washington,
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but he tends to write in kind of a meandering style,
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and this will be kind of a typical Washingtonian statement
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full of parenthesis and weird clauses,
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but his heart's in the right place.