Second Mount Rushmore Debate

Second Mount Rushmore Debate

Introduction

Danish-American Gutzon Borglum along with his son, Lincoln Borglum Sculpted the Mount Rushmore. These are sculptures of the heads of four presidents of United States including George Washington (1732-1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). It is to sponsor the tourism in the state idealized by the historian of South Dakota, Doane Robinson who conceived the idea of cutting up the well famed persons into the black hill. Now, Mount Rushmore has a symbolic image of presidential magnitude. It has been a part of discussion among people and portrayed in admired works.

Discussion

George Washington

George Washington took his oath on April 30, 1789, in the gallery of the Federal Hall on the Wall Street in the New York, as the first President of the United States. "As the first of everything, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles."

George Washington was born into a Virginia family in 1732. He was a gentleman and famous as a Virginia gentleman. Western Development and Military Arts were his entangled attentions. When he was sixteen year old, he aided Shenandoah lands for Thomas. As he was interested in Military Arts, he received a commission as a lieutenant colonel in 1754. He participated in the war grew into the Indian and French War. Washington supervised his land in the area of Mount Vernon and did service in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1759 to the revolution of America. He got married to Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow and dedicated himself a happy and busy life..

He was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army when Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia in May 1775. He took command on his not perfectly trained troops on July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts and went on board upon a war. He came to know that bothering the British was a good approach. So he informed the Congress, “we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." He forced the Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown with the help of French allies in 1781.

The development of two parties at the end of the first term disappointed him and due to his exhausted of politics he got retired on his second term. He recommended his countrymen to renounce geographical differences and unwarranted party spirit in the Farewell Address. He notified against long-term associations in foreign affairs. Washington died followed by throat infection on December 14, 1799 at Mount Vernon and could not enjoy more than three years of his retirement. He left the country to mourn him for months.

Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, for he died of a throat infection December 14, 1799. For months, the Nation mourned him.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of United ...