mr. brookhiser. my question is about your documentary you did on alexander hamilton. it had to queue with the dual the in the documentary your experts said the duel was fought basically on the low ground with a ferryboat land is. i was wondering if you could comment on the red sandstone rock that is part at the top of the hill, the high ground that kind of jets out to the middle of midtown manhattan. and its card and it says something like this is where alexander hamilton rested his head after his mortally wounded in the duel with aaron burr. and it is surrounded by a fence. but it has a brass -- i wish is when and why that was not included in the document and why your experts ought it was fought down at what it would've been the low ground when there was a known field where everyone that the problems in new york would come over to new jersey to fight their duels. >> guest: the rock was moved. the rock you're talking now, that was moved up from the site where the duels took place. now, where we walke

mr. brookhiser can you ask mr. brookhiser to elaborate on the relationship between george washington and alexander hamilton. >> guest: washington is older. he is born in 1732. there is a 25 year gap. there is something paternal about it. washington called his staff his family. his staff during the revolutionary war which i don't think was unique to him. it was a term of military use. anyway, the father of his country and here is the immigrant without a father. it is not the kind of ideal relationship washington has with lafayette. that was the perfect father/suns substitution. washington had no children. lafayette's father was killed in battle. of fatherless young man, when they meet a just bond and it is great. there are clouds and storms with hamilton. they have a fight during the revolutionary war. washington tells hamilton to come meet him. he wants to talk about something and hamilton says i will be right there and when he arrives washington says you kept me ten minutes waiting. you showed me disrespect and ham