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Washington was not only an American of a pure and noble type, but he was the first thorough American in the broad, national sense, as distinct from the colonial American of his time.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Editor's note · Context
Lodge describes Washington as the first true American in a national sense, moving beyond colonial identities.
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