In so doing the younger generation did but complete the work of Washington, for he it was who first trod the path and marked the way for a true American policy in the midst of men who could not understand his purposes.
Lodge credits Washington for laying the groundwork for a true American policy amidst political opposition.
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He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.
So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.