Letter to the editor: Washington was not disparaged
By Victor Nuovo
In his letter to the Addison Independent (March 12) Tom Hughes accuses me of writing disparagingly of George Washington. This was not my intention. Indeed, I meant just opposite. Therefore, either I miswrote or Mr. Hughes mistook my point. Probably both are true.
In any case, I take it that Mr. Hughes and I agree about Washington’s greatness. We seem to disagree about where in his character and personality the source of that greatness lay. I locate it in Washington’s moral character and not in his intellectual life. But I wrote that he did not read books, which is not true. I stand corrected.
Victor Nuovo
Middlebury
