European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. September 18. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 illuminating profession new York new Jersey port authority electricians Nick Lisa unwound and Ili Clor Ken dim porch a Cut 61 0 feet abbe the Hudson River while they re place a Burnid out lamp Timon Washington Bridge. The Fri Luu. Which connects new York s Borough of the Bronx to the Lon of tort Lee n.i., has a lamp Sjoli a known us necklace i he inn. It consists of 158 lamps that i ant from Uhles and illuminate the outline of the Grid e during Nin Llimo. Sex president Analysed no intellectual but firm Alexandria. A. A scholars agreed that the former president of the United states was hardly an intellectual was fond of horses and had few close personal friendships. The denied that he was a figurehead spun around by the who kids in his can  sound like a seminar on Ronald Reagan guess again. The panel discussion was a highlight of a three Day conference winding up saturday in Alexandria on George Washington and the american  the event was sponsored by the m9unt Vernon la Dies association which runs Washington s restored Home at nearby mount Vernon and the american studies Center. The conference was held As part of the Observance of the Bicentennial of Washington s inauguration As president in 1789. The picture of the nation s first president that emerges is of a Workaholic and a demanding taskmaster who was chillingly formal in his Public Demeanour something of a nitpick or and a charmer with women. I am not sure that i would really Call George Washington a warm person Christine Meadows curator of mount Vernon said during Friday s panel. He had a great sense of the respect that was due to rank and position and a Strong feeling that if one had attained that position then he was due a great Deal of respect Meadows said. And he conducted himself that Way in  she said he had few close  although family members said he could be warm and informal when out of the Public c e. John stage associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and editor in chief of the papers of James  said Washington and his close associates had forged their relationships in the politics of colonial Virginia and the were much More prag Matic More political than they would be purely per  everything went in his daily life according to clock  Meadows said. Nobody entered his study without his personal invitation. In thai sense he was. Perhaps with Alexander Hamilton sharing an apparent work holism. You arc almost in Awe of his capacity for detail. He must have driven people Cray who worked for him. Encyclopedia americana he was a nitpicker to some  Dan Jordan executive director of Monticello Thomas Jefferson s restored mansion near Charlottes Ville va., said Washington freely acknowledged his own Lack of a formal education. Some historians have made a great Deal of this and suggested that he was spun around by the who kids in his Cabinet and that they led him by the hand for their own purposes against his own interest Jordan said. I Don t think that argument holds  scholars have concluded that Jefferson Hamilton and Madison would All score in the Genius Range if they could Lake an in test the Jefferson specialist said. In that company Washington might appear a bit slow but who would the asked. He cited Jefferson s own judgment of the first presi Dent his mind was great and powerful without being of the first  the panellists did not press any comparisons with Reagan but critics have also pictured the immediate past president As someone of Ordinary intelligence who served As a front Man for policies worked out by his subordinates. Reagan s supporters defend him against this criticism and Jordan defended Washington saying. There in t any question from the record and from what he accomplished and achieved that he was Plant Sharp  Jordan argued that judgment and courage Are More important in a president than intellectual brilliance anyway. Stephen Schechter. A political scientist who is chair Man of the new York Bicentennial commission was asked about Washington s fondness for horses a trait that Reagan shares. He had his life divided into parts Public service and Home Schechter said. I think Washington truly held nothing More valuable than his return Rome and that return had much that went along with it involving agriculture and horses and the  whether Washington warmed up in feminine company. Meadows said he in joked women and the found him enormously interesting. He seemed to be More at ease with