Doris Kearns Goodwin Reveals the Real George Washington

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🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about executive producing the History Channel miniseries Washington, some things she’s observed from watching Steven Spielberg on the set of Lincoln, and how the collaborative process of making Washington helped her through her husband's death. She discuss why she wanted to go beyond the highlights of George Washington’s life to explore the real man, and she debunks and confirms some common legends about our founding father. Doris reveals the long held personal grudge that led George Washington to join the American Revolution, the intense ambition that drove him to succeed, and how owning and exploiting slaves became essential to that success. The three night television event Washington begins Sunday February 16 at 8PM E/P on The History Channel. Today's episode was sponsored by Wave and Kronos. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:40.0	This February 17th is President's Day and those who know me are all too familiar with my annual rant about this meaninglessly generic holiday.
1:51.0	In case you're not familiar with the history of it, America used to have two separate presidential holidays in February,
1:58.0	to celebrate George Washington's birthday on the 22nd and to Abraham Lincoln's birthday on the 12th.
2:04.0	But then, the Uniform Federal Holiday Act of 1971 sold out old Abe and George in order to give Americans a three-day weekend,
2:13.0	resulting in the bland catch-all holiday President's Day, which is intended to salute all of our 45 Presidents.
2:20.0	Now I ask you, does Abraham Lincoln deserve to be lumped in with James Buchanan who all but paved the way for the Civil War?
2:28.0	Is it right to give equal honor to both George Washington and the wildly corrupt and incompetent Warren G. Harding?
2:35.0	Of course not, George Washington deserves his own holiday.
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