February 22, the birthday of the first President of the United States, the father of our country – George Washington. What was the man really like? I mean students in US public schools are being taught he was not a good man. Wikipedia describes him as a ‘soldier and slaveowner’. I remember being taught in school he chopped down a cherry tree when he was a boy and he could not lie when his father asked him if he had done it. I really don’t remember much else, so who was he really. Was he a deist as they say?