This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bats with Nathaniel Filber, who tells a whale of a tale

that travels with George and search of Washington in his legacy. This is the first term of two

terms for George Washington, and he travels to meet people. He travels to meet common

people and to demonstrate the power of the presidency and also to learn the nation that

he now rules in some fashion. In some fashion, it wasn't clear how it's to be done, but

there's a trip that he takes to Long Island. And he goes to Long Island places we all

know, Cold Spring Harbor, a Rosalind. These are stops along the Long Island railway, but

this is an important serendipitous trip for George Washington because in a place called

C. Talkit, a Long Island sound were men who participated as spies in the revolution, and

they were not revealed at the time. Why not, Nat? Well, they weren't revealed as spies.

Not even their family members knew because if this experiment in a republic should fail,

and Great Britain should come back in charge of her former colonies, it would not be a

good thing to be known as a spy against the British crown. And so their role as spies

was kept an absolute secret only Washington and Benjamin Talmudch, his spy chief, were

probably the only people who knew their identities. And it wouldn't be until the 20th century

that a historian would reveal those identities for the first time their family and members

would have no idea of the role they took in trying to win America its independence. And so

Washington seems to have decided in April of 1790 to head on a four day trip to Western Long Island.

There's actually no mention of this trip in the newspapers. I mean, it's a press blackout.

I mean, it's unimaginable. Why? Because all the other trips are trumpeted in the press. It's

the evidence seems clear judging on where he goes. He is quietly as possible going to the residences

of participants in what was known as the culpris firing and thanking them whether it's with just

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