#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic

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History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Clay Jenkinson and regular Listening to America correspondent Lindsay Chervinsky talk about moments when the first president, George Washington, may have been tempted to drop the mic - if such a technology had existed in his time. We discuss Washington's response to the Newburgh Conspiracy, Washington showing up at the Continental Congress in uniform before they had appointed him Commander in Chief, Washington's Farewell Address, and Washington's gift of a basket of figs when Colonel Hamilton was beset by a sex scandal.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to this introduction to the podcast edition of this week's
0:04.0	Listing to America with Clay Jenkinson. Everyone, we're underway. We recorded the first program in
0:10.5	Norfolk at WHRV just a week or so ago. Hereafter you will be listening to America with Clay Jenkinson
0:17.2	rather than to the Thomas Jeffersoner. There will be more continuity than change and one of those
0:22.4	continuities, of course, will be our spirited young correspondent Lindsey Chervinsky. Today,
0:28.6	we talk about 10 moments when George Washington would have dropped the mic as it were had such
0:35.1	technology existed in his time. One of the questions I ask her is, is he the kind of person
0:39.9	who would ever drop the mic? That does sound more like Barack Obama, who was the first president
0:44.5	to do so at the White House Correspondence Dinner in 2016. I can't tell you how excited I am about
0:50.2	the new look of the program. As I say, more continuity than change. Joe Ellis will be coming from
0:56.0	time to time and David Swenson will be there to help broker those conversations. More reports from
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1:28.1	I'm planning to spend the next 15 years of my life on the open road going to follow the Lewis
1:33.2	and Cartrayal of course, going to look at all of the other Roosevelt's conservation properties
1:37.6	in the American West of course, going to follow the entire journey of John Steinbeck in 1960,
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1:50.8	Our plan is to fan out and to go see this monster country as Steinbeck called and listen,
1:56.8	listen, listen and what made our Water in the West trip so interesting. This was with my colleagues,
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