Eleanor Herman
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363 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Eleanor Herman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The story is when he was a young man, late teens, early 20s.
He was staying with his brother Lawrence at Mount Vernon, and they would often visit their neighbors, which was George Fairfax, who was a fabulously wealthy British gentleman, and his young and pretty wife, Sally.
This couple would educate Washington on good manners and polite society, which I think indicates he must have been a bit of a hayseed.
They would provide him with books to read.
He developed quite a crush on the wife.
Sally.
And nothing happened.
And when he was 25, he married Martha Custis and the two couples socialized until 1773 when the Fairfaxes returned to England.
And he did write Sally a couple of letters saying that some of the happiest moments in his life had been spent in her company.
And that's it.
I don't think there's a one, really.
I think he was probably very boring sexually.
Right.
So Thomas Jefferson, though he was a founding father of the United States and a brilliant man in several different respects, he was really not a decent human being in my view.
I was shocked to discover that.
But he had an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings.
He had gotten her pregnant when she was 16.
She ended up having
Seven children with him.
And when he was president in the first decade of the 1800s, his political opponents got a tabloid journalist to dig into the story.
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