sense of humor. He needed it. In his
term as president the country was just
beginning to seriously grapple with
the wrongs of slavery, was in the
midst of a severe depression and was
1 facing the sensitive issue of Texas and
whether it would join the union.
To his great fortune, Van Buren had
no sensitive Jewish issues to address,
though chances are he might have
been supportive of what came his
way. Van Buren holds the distinction
of being the first president to speak
out on behalf of Jews living in another
country. Several Jews in Egypt had
been falsely charged with murder;
Van Buren told the U.S. counsel there 1
to protest their conviction. (Eventually,
the men were found innocent, clearly
attributable to American intervention.) 1

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GEORGE
WASHINGTON

(1732-1799):1st
president of the Unit-1
ed States; Federalist.
It was age that Ai-
_ mately settled the
debate as to who would become the
-country's first president. Both Washing-1
ton and Benjamin Franklin were the
f avorites, but Franklin was 80 years
I old and ill. That left the general, who
was, after all, famous for his leader-
' ship abilities and his good manners
(everyone called Washington a true
I gentleman).
Washington never became the out
spoken advocate of religious free-
! dom, or a great admirer of Jews, in
the way of his compatriots, John
1 Adams and Thomas Jefferson. But he
I certainly had a cordial relationship
I with the Jewish community.
The first president had a number of
Jewish acquaintances. Under Wash-
ington's leadership, Solomon Bush
rose to lieutenant colonel in the Ameri-1
can Army, the highest rank ever
achieved by a Jew.
In 1777, Washington cited Jews in
the following statement, issued to sol-
i Biers of the Continental Army. The
men, he said, should aspire to the
standards set by "a great army of the I

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