Statesmanship Media by Tom West
George Washington, statesman.
In the John Trumbull painting above, George Washington steps down as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army after winning independence from Great Britain.
“If (Washington) does (relinquish power), he will be the greatest man in the world,” said an incredulous King George III. He did. Twice.
Washington defeated the British during the Revolutionary War and then returned to his beloved Mount Vernon. He was elected as the first President of the United States, served two terms, and again stepped away from power to return to Mount Vernon.
I’m Tom West of Statesmanship Media, and I write about statesmanship and other issues Big Media mostly ignores. I have won no Pulitzers. (Really don’t want one.) Nor Edmund R. Murrow Awards. I am not impressed by the Poynter Institute. (Yes, I visited it. Twice. As a contract interpreter for the U.S. Department of State, my principal sustenance all these years.)
I have no journalism degree, but my Colombian wife, who studied “social communication” at a Jesuit university in Bogotá, has me edit her Spanish. (I studied Sociology and Economics at the University of Virginia, and later Diplomacy & International Relations at the Escuela Diplomática in Madrid, Spain.)
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