and in entered rupert hughes. shown here, rupert was a hollywood mogul and author. he, with another man named w.a. woodward, decided that they would debunk washington as being representative of the old ways. they are quite cynical about it. bunk, their story about where that originated from, it was popular in the 1920s. it was associated with henry ford and how he liked to say bunk to mean "nonsense." well, w.a. woodward and rupert hughes said, well, they looked at troops being deloused in world war i, and they said if troops can be deloused, washington can be debunked. [laughter] that's where the word "debunk" comes from. that's where it started. and they department just try to destroy -- didn't just try to destroy the washington myth, they tore washington down to the gutter. they claimed that he was a gin-swilling, cigar-smoking champion curser who had deformed hands and was incredibly ugly. he looked like an ape, and he pawed at any woman who came his way, and they were always jilting him. that he blundered his way through the revolutionary war. all of this stuff