Like most Americans, I have a great deal of respect for our first U.S. President, George Washington (#1 1789-1797). I had been to his home at Mount Vernon as a kid in 1969. I wanted to return because so much had changed in those 40-plus years. Those changes were quite noticeable, even from what I saw of it on the mid 1980's television mini-series about George Washington and the shots of the house that were in it then are different now. But it is still a wonderful place, and so large too. Lots of acres. Well kept although it was easy to see that the grass was suffering from the long hot dry summer.