SCOOP: A Special Edition on Presidents Day
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We begin and end with the love of an American president for his wife — from shopping for the hottest heels of the moment, to the secrets of a long life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop. Happy President's Day. Happy George Washington's birthday. That's a fun fact about President's Day weekend. The official federal holiday is not President's Day at all. It is George Washington's birthday. Now, in your state, your state holiday, which often aligns with federal holidays, might be President's Day. |
| 0:22.3 | So you can technically be celebrating both at the same time. |
| 0:25.0 | Hopefully you get a little bit of reprieve from your weekly schedule and you get Monday off. |
| 0:29.8 | We're happily working for you today because we have a lot of news on President's Day that we weren't expecting. |
| 0:35.9 | So we're going to start off with a little bit of a fun |
| 0:38.0 | story about a president and his love for his wife. We're going to end with a very touching |
| 0:42.8 | story about a president and his love for his wife. And in between, we're going to cover some really |
| 0:46.6 | big news items that we weren't expecting. Fun fact about George Washington, George Washington liked |
| 0:51.7 | to shop. Did you know that? He was very attuned to the fashions of the world. |
| 0:56.7 | In fact, over the last year, as part of Smarter News, in an interview we did on Betsy Ross, who's |
| 1:01.9 | believed to have sewed the first American flag, we learned that there is some indication that |
| 1:08.3 | George Washington hired Betsy Ross and her husband, who were really well-known |
| 1:12.3 | upholsters in Philadelphia, to create the bed curtains in his bedroom at Mount Vernon. |
| 1:18.7 | So this is one of the clues, the many clues to suggest that Betsy Ross was indeed the first |
| 1:23.9 | person to make the very first American flag. But we also learned from Mount Vernon about George Washington's shopping habits. |
| 1:32.2 | And turns out he liked to shop specifically for his wife. |
| 1:36.0 | Remember Martha Washington was 27 years old, a widow at the time when she married George Washington. |
| 1:41.5 | And we actually have a picture of her wedding shoes. |
| 1:43.6 | So these were not the shoes that President Washington ordered for her, but we do know from the receipts |
| 1:48.4 | that he sent orders for shoes for his wife to London with very, very careful specifics about |
| 1:57.0 | what she wanted and what she didn't. And can you imagine? So this was like Zappos. |
| 2:04.8 | Like basically George Washington was placing online orders for his wife, |
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