George Washington’s warning to future generations

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🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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John Avlon, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, discusses the first president’s momentous and prescient farewell address to the nation and how the address could help reunite America through the lessons rooted in Washington’s experience as described in his new book, Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations. Michael Gerhardt, scholar-in-residence at the National Constitution Center, moderates. the discussion.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to
0:09.5	We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:13.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America,
0:16.8	chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
0:24.0	And before we start today's show, I want to give a heartfelt appreciation to
0:29.7	Nacandro Ianachi, our spectacular web content
0:33.6	strategist who's produced this podcast,
0:36.9	essentially since I came to the Constitution Center
0:39.9	in 2013, he has built it from a bathtub operation where we had people calling in
0:47.0	on landlines and it sounded like it was recorded in the 1930s into the
0:51.7	wonderful show that you all listened to today
0:55.0	and all of us at the Constitution Center
0:58.0	are so proud that Nukandro will be starting
1:01.0	Columbia Law School in the fall and also that he'll continue to work
1:05.5	with the We The People Podcasts from New York. We're also thrilled that he will be
1:09.5	succeeded here in Philadelphia by Uganda Ease, who will be working with the podcast to keep up the great
1:16.5	conversations that we all know in love.
1:18.9	But I wanted to say Nacandro thank you so much for your spectacular work and I wanted to ask you what were you trying to achieve when you worked to build the We The People Podcast.
1:30.0	Well first thank you Jeff for being so kind I'm really moved by those words and I have to say
1:40.7	working on the podcast has been maybe the best thing I've done here and the most fun and most engaging and I'm you know
1:49.0	sad to be relinquishing mostly my leadership of the product but I look forward to listening and working with you guys.
1:57.0	I would say the goal in my mind was twofold.
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