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Tribune editorial: America already has a perfectly good Mount Vernon, and it’s not in Utah

French knight: Well, I’ll ask him, but I don’t think he’ll be very keen. He’s already got one, you see?

If anyone really has the ability to pass the hat and come up with $70 million in private money to build something in Utah that extols American history, why in the name of George Washington would they have so little imagination as to build another Mount Vernon.

We’ve already got one, you see. A real one. Where George Washington really lived and farmed and entertained and bought and sold slaves. And, to his eternal credit, to which he kept trying to retreat after each of those times he did way more than his share to create the United States of America.