# Spend a week with Washington, Jefferson or Franklin
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-a-week-with-washington-jefferson-or-franklin/682061
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 24, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-a-week-with-washington-jefferson-or-franklin/682061 "2014-02-24T02:38:36Z")
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-a-week-with-washington-jefferson-or-franklin/682061/21 "2014-02-25T16:05:23Z")
I would pick Jefferson because Monticello isn’t too far from where I live and he could tell me about what the area was like in his time. Plus we could go tour his house!
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spend-a-week-with-washington-jefferson-or-franklin/682061/22 "2014-02-25T17:32:35Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#):
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> This. Jefferson was a brilliant man and even one hour of conversation with him would be amazing. But he also deserves a bitch-slap for his role in allowing slavery to continue, especially when he knew it to be morally wrong. I’d be more than happy to deliver said bitch-slap.
And for funding an opposition newspaper while he served in the Washington Cabinet… and for repeatedly lying about it, even to Washington’s face… and for rebuking John Adams’s offer of a partnership during Adams’s Presidency… and for then scheming to undermine and replace him… and for insisting the Federal government had only its enumerated powers, until he made the Louisiana Purchase, an act not provided for in the Constitution… and for badly neglecting the U.S. Navy (Theodore Roosevelt blasts him for this in _The Naval War of 1812_)… and for keeping some of his own kids in slavery… and for being such a spendthrift that some of them had to be sold down the river to settle his debts after he died…
OK, I’ll stop.
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