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Old 03-17-2017, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Because she was a woman...they always oppose everything we want to do!

Mrs G won't let me blow anything else up since the incident with the gopher mound and also says a catapult is out of the question
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Old 03-17-2017, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Maine
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Lilienthal was married. Sikorsky was married. Doolittle was married. Yeager was/is married.

Darwin was married. Babbage was married. Mendeleev was married. Einstein was married.

There is no correlation between innovative greatness and marital status. Your cherry-picking of the Wright brothers circumstances demonstrates only your ability to find isolated data points that align with your nonsensical claims and ignore all those - the vast majority - that do not.



You should stop embarrassing yourself.



Anyway- back on topic...
One should also remember that the " Presidents House" ie the White House was not built yet. Having responsibilities both personal, as well as " lady of the house" in their owned properties etc, This may have weighed in on her opinions of being " First Lady" to the " President"- a position created as a result of Declaration of Independence down through the war itself...
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Old 03-17-2017, 11:59 AM
 
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As most others pointed out, Martha Washington probably didn't want to share her husband with the rest of the nation any more, as George Washington had given roughly 8 years of direct service during the Revolutionary War.

One consideration that I'd raise that hadn't been mentioned before is that the men in Washington's family weren't long lived. A brief list of his paternal line and their ages at death:
  • Lawrence Washington (great great grandfather) died at 51
  • John Washington (great grandfather) died at 44
  • Lawrence Washington (grandfather) died at 38
  • Augustine Washington (father) died at 48

Additionally, Washington's brothers were equally short-lived:
  • Lawrence Washington, died 1752, at 34
  • Augustine Washington, died 1762, at 42
  • Samuel Washington, died 1781, at 46
  • John Augustine Washington, died 1787, at 51
  • Charles Washington, died 1799, at 61

At the time he took the oath of office in 1789, George Washington was 57 years old and had four brother predecease him at that time.

In light of these facts, Martha Washington possibly desired that she and her husband spend their remaining years together at Mount Vernon rather than in further service to the fledgling national government.
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Old 03-17-2017, 12:12 PM
 
Location: West Virginia
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Now that we've got all the sexist comments out of the way, I'll add what I think.

I think Martha was deeply in love with George and thought he had given a lot to his country and that it was time for him to come home to Mount Vernon, make some of his favorite pumpkin porter (he called it his small beer), and sit on the porch and watch the world go by. It makes good sense for a devoted wife to want her husband to be at home with her.
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