well, in a letter to henry knox, a revolutionary war general, george washington wrote my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. he didn't seem too thrilled about this. no, it's a fascinating note because, you know, is is this is this how washington truly feels or is this, you know, washington trying to, again, be the very humble republican citizen called back into duty. and he really doesn't want to you know, he doesn't want people to suspect that he desires power, that he wants power. you know, i think after so many years of serving his country and serving as general of the army, you know, washington was fine to retire and to to go back to a quiet life and focus on his plantation and and really sort of the future of his estate and his family. but at the same time, you know, washington just he just can't say no to the call of duty. and you know, being asked to once again take up those burdens of leadership as the first president of the united states. i think his fear and his dread

now, back in the day when when george was out standing his field and general henry knox rode up on his horse and said, general washington, you've just been elected. george washington said, okay, i'll go to new york to get inaugurated. but two things. number one, would you let people know i'm going to be you know a week or so late because i've got to stop and visit my mother because she's not well and, it was actually the last time you saw her before she died. and then secondly she said, would you ride horse up to connecticut to visit a man named daniel hinsdale? now, the british had been had had laws that they had imposed on the colonies and was what provoked british the tea party, the boston tea party. in fact, the british had these laws imposed on the colonies that said that we could not manufacture the good stuff here we couldn't manufacture weaponry here. we couldn't manufacture, you know, fine watches. we couldn't manufacture find clothing here. all that stuff had to be manufactured in england. this was this was the british way, using the american colonies to subsidize, you know,

they were still major power players around the great lakes, people in the administration, like henry knox the secretary of war, and alexander hamilton treasury genuinely worried about yrigoyen involvement on new york's and ohio borders. and they were worried about the american project in these spaces. if the iroquois were not brought on board or in washington's immense imagination, as well as knox's imagination brought to heel. also, corn printers presence in philadelphia when he received this gift, was not actually unusual. he'd been a chief since the american revolution and had a very good relationship with american diplomats in pennsylvania. but to americans, he kind of had a kind of interesting, tension filled relationship because he had a reputation for resistance, for protecting the iroquois. sometimes, despite the cost, the memory was endowed. then in a tomahawk. at least the story goes, this traditional symbol of both war and peace complaints are fought against the americans during the american, as did the vast majority of the senecas. he wielded the of ear coin military power fre