vernon. but i'm sorry, but the war too was a time of terrible loss again for martha and she lost not only her sister, nancy, and she did write to her. brother in law a verbal basset and say, i'm after nancy's death and say i must own that she the greatest favorite i had in the world. and i think this was this idea of, friendship and friendships comes really startlingly. the papers many the papers here are to be found elsewhere, but it's when they're together and the focus is on martha that you really see how they they gel together. and, of course, forth of her children. jackie dies in the hour of victory. he's not an officer, but he's in attendance at yorktown and dies of camp fever. and and martha is at the lowest ebb. washington couldn't have been more more, more keen to console her and. but jackie is left out. a wife who's sweet but a bit of a and four children, thankfully for the park custis estates there's a son and but there are three daughters and so we find when inevitably after a per

you have this scene of him thinking in mount vernon towards the end when he is troubled. talk to us about that. what is he troubled about? >> guest: throughout three books about the revolution i kept wanting washington to have a high five moment where he said yes, i did it. it never comes. never gets that sense of satisfying accomplishments because always another catastrophe looming. for washington i said he was swinging for the fences when it comes to posterity. one of the things that bothered him more than anything was his involvement with slavery. it was a pernicious institution, this is a guy who became a slaveholder at age 11 when his father died. he had befriended lafayette, the idealistic frenchman, hoping to create a country of slavery i never would have lifted my sword in the cause of america. washington overheard, this was recorded in jefferson -- jefferson right to down saying at some point in his presidency if slavery should divide the country, i will go with the northern part. that is a statement from a virginian. there are 300 and enslaved people, half are o

mount vernon was a farm, but this grows out of that. and my initial research into the life of the women who lived at 190 high street while enslaved began then and emerged more in my book, independence is a ten year old book now, which is a little scary. it's like having a child, getting ready to drive or something. but but it grew out this and getting deep into the record that exists of these women and. then when charlene and i began organizing this book later in 2019 and and getting know really what what the chapters need to be about this was one of the topics we brought up and we approached a couple other historians who were not available or their work was being elsewhere and the boss here, as i still call her, informed me that i was going to write this chapter. and i thought isaiah said, you're one of the best philadelphia historians. that was kind of funny, but so we moved into this and i said, well, that's easy. are simply i spend the spring and summer 2020 going back to mount vernon and going through the documentary evidence evide

so he'd packed his bags at mount vernon and arrived in philadelphia. he did, however, bring a uniform along, which people noted and this was to indicate his willingness, if necessary, to to take up a leadership position. maybe he was advocates using his his availability should should the job come up. but he did not pack his camping equipment. and he actually went to one of the only, i think, three letters that have survived between washington and martha washington, because in the period when a spouse died, it was customary for the widow or the widower to burn the correspondence that was considered private. and martha destroyed all of the letters from george washington, but several of them survived, one of them in a little desk that belonged to her. that's a tudor place in georgetown outside of washington, d.c. now. and it's the letter washington wrote to her, basically telling martha he was not going to be coming home from philadelphia, but rather going to to take command of the army. and what i love about it, because many of us in the audience have do

vernon buddy was dragged from mt. vernon.didn't want to do it so i think because of that, that's where lafayette is spontaneously a more appealing person to think about and talk about but also would have been one of his persistent defects about him. he didn't quite, there were other political mistakes he made but one of them is just that he always was kind of like if somebody offers him the presidency he's like i don't want to be president. i don't actually want that job and he was not president in the way that his old mentor was. >> i would be remiss if i didn't ask you a question. he wants to know if you have alluded to project the one and only mike duncan. >> i'm not telling anybody. because the thing is i'm wrapping up the revolution so i've got a lot of incredibly nervous fans out there who don't know what i'm going to do next. and i will continue to podcast revolutions aside but i've got a very nice thing going here that i really love to do and it does have other interests that i want to explore. there's a leader in the

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please, let's give a big mount vernon welcome to maurits koval sonia ratio. something very much. dagen thank you, stephen, and thank you to all of you for showing up tonight. well, i'm sure we'll have fun and, and thank you for buying this book. what you'll be doing hopefully right after this talk if you haven't already. now over you can hear me when my neck is not like that. can you hear me? if i just speak normally. okay. first, among men, george washington peeking out from this little picture here because you're going to reveal to us the true man. it's a myth busting book. well, yeah, i think it is. and okay, where to begin? there are the title itself first among men. and the question about the myth of american masculinity. it's it's kind of a joke, which is mostly it's not against there's nothing this is not a work book or i'm not trying demote george washington or to cut him down to size or anything like that or to show that he was a liberal in the content prairie sense in the modern sense. but but it is a joke as a kind of a joke which is on biographers, on some biography w

there is one gold and vernon in newport and another person, i believe. and oliphant.nd then another i don't know her name of, but they are writing to him in a very flirtatious way, which is quite funny and especially and vernon writes to him that she wants to be his end. the goal. and she says, unfortunately, as a woman i can't. but i'm sure that if that would have been possible, all american women would want to be. your article said sake and then they continue. but then apparently he does something with this and oliphant and then and vernon is very upset by that. and so she writes to him that she is very just mad at him for going with the other. and so it's all quite traumatic and of course, most of the or not most sure a lot of them also did not. i think caution bow for instance was not really interested in that kind of things. but most of the younger officers are very well known, have had a lot of girlfriends around during this campaign and that might sounds a little sort of just funny, but it also is quite important because some of these women were very influentia

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congratulate you and to be in a space named after the great and wonderful vernon jordan. dear, wonderful man and a great man. you are a great woman. >> thank you. >> i want to start with that. that was the good news. a smart friend of mine said to me this morning that what this supreme court ruling in affirmative action proves is that they are not against affirmative action. they are fine with it for the well to do. what they are against is us. they don't want people who look like you and me in elite schools. >> i think you hit the nail on the head in the opening when you talked about this as a decades long program. this is essentially all part of a program designed to dismantle the infrastructure created after the civil rights movement to try to move us further towards equality. these are people who have always believed that that project was worth engaging in. john roberts has had his long-term hostility to affirmative and the voting rights act. he said the only way is to stop discriminating against race is to stop discriminating against race. what is most disturbing is

teaches the classes about george washington at the university named after him and teach them at mount vernon to tell us a little bit of the work you do. yes, i'm incredibly lucky i'm a professor and the chair of the history department at george washington university. so i get to teach a range of classes on early american history, including the revolution, war of 1812. and the one you mentioned, my favorite, george washington and his world, which takes place in his world at his mount vernon estate for gw students, that's exciting. although on the other hand, george washington didn't sign the declaration of independence. i mean, a slacker. i know, i know. what was what was he doing? well, what was he doing? it was getting ready to fight the british. so he was in new york just welcoming. he might say, intercepting the largest armada of soldiers and sailors to cross the atlantic. to that point, about 30,000 british soldiers arriving in new york and was there waiting for them. that's right. at this end and around this time, they're planning or already underway an invasion of canada as well. that'

[laughter] - way to go, vernon.om nashville originally? - exactly, she is. - this has been pretty much the story of my experience here so far. you know, the town has a reputation. there are so many really good musicians here. does that make it harder to break out here? and ultimately, what happens if you suck here? - [laughs] - like, i mean, if you can't, if you play country western... - i mean, it is-- - and you cannot-- you're not good at your instrument, can you make a living here and suck? - absolutely. - yeah, yeah, yeah. not to say, like, there's tons of bands that suck or something here, but when i came here, i-i wasn't good enough, and i went out to some, like, writers rounds, and i learned very quickly i had to be a better player. i had to be a better singer. i had to be a better writer. and, like, so, you know, you work hard because you're surrounded by that. it's like, you're typically playing to, like, a whole room of, you know, pickers and writers. and so it's like, how many nashville musicians does it

teaches the classes about george washington at the university named after him and teach them at mount vernon to tell us a little bit of the work you do. yes, i'm incredibly lucky i'm a professor and the chair of the history department at george washington university. so i get to teach a range of classes on early american history, including the revolution, war of 1812. and the one you mentioned, my favorite, george washington and his world, which takes place in his world at his mount vernon estate for gw students, that's exciting. although on the other hand, george washington didn't sign the declaration of independence. i mean, a slacker. i know, i know. what was what was he doing? well, what was he doing? it was getting ready to fight the british. so he was in new york just welcoming. he might say, intercepting the largest armada of soldiers and sailors to cross the atlantic. to that point, about 30,000 british soldiers arriving in new york and was there waiting for them. that's right. at this end and around this time, they're planning or already underway an invasion of canada as well. that'

to use the lever so to go crazy is very dangerous. waterfalls pits the place for angelina vernon, andened to the loupe? terribly disappointed family. i can imagine going to the priesthood. i continued his work and for the better. i'm not so joyless, and he could finish the loop, over there in the villas it happened with the devil's bandits. okay it's time to go otherwise we ourselves will find ourselves there, unfortunately, i can’t take her from the courts, in the morning there should be a bus on it. if you ralph now say that you missed her. i don't think you have any teeth. jungle i couldn't do anything. i have a car. you were a burden from birth, me and the whole family, too. and one more. you are the luckiest son of a bitch that tramples this earth is she here? goes straight to the phone booth. with her some guy what to do? she loves guys. good evening sir. i need a room with bathtub for one night. we have all numbers. it's simple amazing. i was just talking too lazy, they 'll wait until i get on the bus in the morning. i don't know, he spoke so impudently the gas that stole elain

uh, where are you or vernon folk songs?d what happened to such a woman, i called her on march 8, congratulated her. we are friends with her, glory god horror, therefore, it is better to shoot. in a circle around me don't, so i say big don't. some kind of either genes or some kind of inner mood is, of course, genes and then, of course you know, well, it can’t be modest, but i can’t go out into the street. oh, it's you yes, then i don't well, how can i go out, how can i not, that's why i always look after myself probably this keeps me going and then how is work in the theater theater the theater is my home. yura yura baturin could not come, but he gets in touch with us yura attention to screen. it turns out we meet, i'm in yaroslavl on the set. you know, we are the actor people forced labor first of all. but i want to tell you that i love you , i appreciate you, i respect you, as an actress of a person and just a woman, you left an indelible impression in my life, both as a person and as an actor, because i had the good fortu

get on stage tonight and ships to indiana that i go to charleston, and to indiana then to mowngt vernone of my life with the best people in the world and you're absolutely right. i've always stood up radically really extremist for god family constitution bill of rights golden rule work and ethic rule of law and that represents the heart and soul of the best most passionate most cocky, most fun people in the world. and that's always where i've been surrounded by so yeah when people started realizing that to be silenced because of fear of being canceled before the term cancel was implemented people realized that ted was always on the front lines standing up for truth and logic and common sense and my audiences are full of the most positive uppity outrageous defiant, independent, patriots in the world. and it literally is a tsunami beneath my american eagle wins. i'm out of bikes every night and so is the audience. jimmy: i absolutely love it. really quickly if jason aldean was watching and he might be given how sexy you and i look on the camera right now would your advice to him would be

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encouraging it to all those officers, inoculating his whole household, all of his enslaved people in mount vernon, where other slave owners not inoculate all of their slaves. washington did. he wrote that he shuddered to think about how hard it was keeping smallpox out through alone. how well inoculation worked. he announced in a private letter in the summer of 1777, after the successes he's having with soldier inoculate us that he hoped virginia would pass a law compelled families forcing families to their children under penalties if they didn't do it. now. i took a walk this morning. right. i was here early, took a walk down towards the white house, took a view of the washington monument, and was thinking about this talk that i was going to give about washington. washington's decision to inoculate the army. i took a selfie with didn't show that wouldn't win. i'm not great itself, but i looked at the washington man woman in the courage me for the first time this morning. what the washington looks like at least to me. i don't know if you've thought about it. folks who live in washington, but it d

and actually ford is on the potomac with president johnson going down the potomac river to mount vernon. and susan, who at this point is, what, maybe ten years old, along with the housekeeper, clara powell, remarkable woman in her own right, is there alone in the house, mrs. has what you and i would call a nervous breakdown. and it must have been just a horrifying thing for for any child to see of their parent. and they managed to get a hold of congressman ford and alert him and, you know, one thing led to another. but. it was clearly a situation where it wasn't only mrs. ford who was paying a price, but the kids, you know, they are at the age you know, you want to know. it is true, to be fair to ford, he would have his secretary mark off every football game that jack or mike or steve played in. and those were sacrosanct. those weekends he would stay home and, you know, cheer on his boys. but but those were exceptions. so anyway, by 1972, that was going to be the year. remember, richard nixon carried every state by one in my home state of massachusetts. and what nobody knew and i discov

vernon kay.e it and she says this is she has it and she says this is why she kisses everybody because she has it and she says this is why she hases everybody because she has it and she says this is why she has to everybody because she has it and she says this is why she has to not rybody because she has it and she says this is why she has to not ryb> and i thought she was being nice to me. okay. she just didn't i was of. yamato didn't know who i was of. yamato no, just making a joke. no, i was just making a joke. but thing is, this is the but the thing is, this is the thing. so a lot of people, when you them and then you. you meet them and then you. joanna lumley says she'll go off to a drink and come back and to get a drink and come back and she who to give she won't know who to give the wine because can't wine to because she can't recognise the that she was recognise the face that she was just speaking to. >> maybe that's the reason she doesn't face d

so the the set complete dentures that i believe mount vernon has. they were made out of metal and the teeth were in there were actually human teeth and sometimes animal teeth. oh yep. and and the teeth sometimes the teeth came overseers. sometimes they came from his own enslaved people. lines. yep. yeah i believe he paid for. okay. but still, that's still. that's the whole point. yeah, well, you talk to the questioning a lot of stuff and like white house stuff like not to take stuff at face value. is there any essential parts of white house history that? no one should question like there shouldn't any questions at all and just accept that anything i said, no, no, no, no. that's that's a good point. obviously, there are a lot of things that we can factually say prove. and we have evidence of of. but i mean, i can even say in my experience in this job, i mean, i'm constantly finding things that slightly change the narrative or a different layer of complexity that has been there or what people have presented before. and the thing about the white house,

like most well-educated gentleman, possessed a copy of grotius his work in his own library at mount vernon. montesquieu to be even more influential in developing a philosophy that could shape the views of rulers and statesmen and governments by integrating the right of nations into a comprehensive philosophy of moderate yet, capable governance. and here i should explain why he does this. what is his philosophy incorporates and recommends the need for prudent judgment by statesmen in different circumstances, different parts of the world, different historical eras, different cultures. it's in the spirit of laws, as part of the moderation of philosophy, in his philosophy of moderation. that is not excused. philosophy sees the limits of abstract philosophizing and theory without dismissing abstract philosophizing in theory. so the right of nations philosophy he offers in the spirit of laws provides he intended to provide a general outline and aims a general approach and some important. but his philosophy incorporates the need for prudence or practical wisdom. politics. here he's the modern ech