 The point is, there's something especially distant about Washington. I mean, do you really feel like you know him? Can you picture what meeting him would be like? I mean, just look at Washington's monument. It is literally a giant slab of stone. It tells us almost nothing about the man, maybe except that he was important. Compare that to the Jefferson and the Lincoln memorials, where you actually get to see a statue of them and read the words that they wrote.