George Washington

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

George Washington died on this day in 1799.

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The victorious general of the American War of Independence and first President of the U.S. retired from public life in 1797, at the end of his second term, and withdrew to his estate at Mount Vernon in Virginia on the Potomac.