Washington's Farewell Revisited w/ John Avlon
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a reair of RTN #48 (with an updated intro).
George Washington is one of the most revered figures in American history. As Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, Washington led his troops to one of the most unlikely and world-shaking victories in modern history, and his selection as President of both the Constitutional Convention and the new government designed that summer in Philadelphia, demonstrate the unmatched faith that the founders had in General Washington. Today, however, we tend to remember Washington more for the positions he held than for the personal qualities that made him a peerless member of the founding generation, but the wisdom left to us by our first President in his farewell address is perhaps more relevant today than ever before. In this episode of The Road to Now we explain why in our discussion with Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon about his book Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? This is Mike Fanoia, host of Amigos podcast here on the Osiris Network. What is |
| 0:15.4 | Amigos podcast? Well, I am a stand-up comedian, writer for true TVs and practical |
| 0:20.6 | jokers, and a music freak. |
| 0:23.2 | So I invite my pals to come talk music, comedy, and everything in between. |
| 0:27.9 | So if you want to come hang, we'd love to have you. |
| 0:31.0 | Thank you. I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. |
| 0:46.2 | For some of you guys who follow us on social media, |
| 0:48.8 | you're probably expecting our interview with the fantastic Dr. Lindsay Chrivensky today. |
| 0:57.0 | We had that planned. For those you guys who've read her book, The Cabinet, George Washington, the creation of an American |
| 1:00.8 | institution. I get it, you're probably a bit disappointed. We are too, but we decided to ask her |
| 1:07.2 | to put it off this week. And she graciously agreed to that. If you follow her on |
| 1:13.6 | social media, you know she's fantastic. But we put that off because as many of you know, Bob's |
| 1:20.8 | daughter, Hallie, she's had a life-changing experience fighting cancer. Bob and his wife took |
| 1:27.0 | Hallie to St. Jude for her |
| 1:29.5 | regular scan, and the scans there discovered that she had a small tumor near her brainstem. |
| 1:35.5 | She had surgery Thursday morning. She's recovering. She's sleeping well. A lot of questions, |
| 1:40.4 | but one thing that wasn't a question was putting our interview with Dr. |
| 1:47.5 | Trevinsky off. Bob and I both were excited about this interview. And as you guys know, |
| 1:55.4 | he's not here right now. And honestly, I'm a professional historian, but there's no way that I could focus on an interview |
| 2:02.4 | knowing that the absence of my friend and co-host is looming so, so heavy on me. |
| 2:09.0 | So Dr. Chavinsky, as I said, agreed to put it off. We're going to reschedule in a future in which |
| 2:14.7 | we know what's going on, but right now, I like you, are waiting for |
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