Everyone knows the story, but no one knows how it actually happened.? The story is that George chopped down the cherry tree and said, “Father, I cannot tell a lie, it was I who chopped down the cherry tree.” Here is how it actually happened:
SOME FACTS ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTONWe elected him President, because he could not tell a lie.We elected him President, because his face was on the one-dollar bill and we wanted to save paper.We elected him President, because he held us at gunpoint, well, the British at gunpoint, while we cheered.We elected him President, because he crossed the Delaware in the middle of winter and somebody painted it.We elected him President, because Benjamin Franklin was on the one-hundred-dollar bill, which made him sort of snooty.We elected him President, because someone had to be first, and he volunteered.We would have kept electing him President, but he refused to serve more than two terms:? “The last thing we need is another King,” he said.