President Bush’s Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend has announced she will soon resign. In a handwritten letter announcing her resignation, Townsend compared President Bush to the country’s first president. Townsend wrote, “In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime. Mr. President, you are such a man.”