George Washington has gone from pious moral instructor ... (Sample: “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist ...

and author of My Life With Benjamin Franklin; and Ormond Seavey, professor of English at the George Washington University, and author of Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life.

Siblings Benjamin Franklin Pepper Jr. and Holly ... a Sully portrait of George Washington also auctioned by Christie’s sold ...

“A republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin’s response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Sept. 17, 1787.