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Lectures in History

George Washington's Character

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Texas Christian University professor Gene Allen Smith teaches a class about George Washington's character. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay, today, what we're planning to do is spend a little time talking about George Washington

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and the character that he developed over a lifetime. And if you think about what we've done for the duration of this course, we've brought him

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into the story intermittently throughout, whether it's talking about individual battles or whether

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it's talking about how he organized men or how he kept men, he recruited men to get them to maintain or stay in the service.

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And one of the things I try to get across whenever I'm talking about Washington is that

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Washington is a bit of an enigma to modern audience. Why? Because we really don't know who he was, what he was, how he looked. I mean, when I show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy presidents. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and

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historians across the country, they rank our presidents. Now, who knows how our current president's

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