ข้อที่ 19. In America folk tales George Washington is known only as a child or a general or an old, old man. Washington’s portrait at the age of sixty – four has become the most popular. It has been reproduced as the official portrait and placed in every school in the country; so we may expect that generations of American schoolchildren will be brought up with the idea that Washington was a solemn old bore. If only Charles Willson Peales’ portrait of him as a handsome and gallant soldier could have been used instead. His older writers, too, have sought to create the legend; and the recent efforts to popularize Washington have unfortunately tried to present him as something he was not: a churchman, politician, engineer and businessman. What follows this are true EXCEPT ……….