Washington — First Commander in Chief

By John Trumbull — Winterthur Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57115499

The Commander in Chief of the United States is the President of the same nation. I think many don’t realize this. They think he is just the leader of the nation and makes speeches while ticking off about half the citizens. They think he is just a politician who sits in a fancy office.

That was not how it started out. It was in 1775 that Washington became the Commander in Chief of the Continental…