H.W. Brands
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first heard May 2026
last heard 12 May
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And for them, the respect of others, the admiration of others was a really big deal.
And Washington, he wasn't the eldest child.
He wasn't going to be the inheritor of the big estate.
He was going to have to make something of himself.
And what he decided to make of himself was this person that people could look up to, that he himself could look up to.
So he had this idea of the kind of character he wanted to be.
He wanted to be admired.
He wanted to be respected.
And the way to do that was to do the things that would make people admire you and respect you.
And so he set for himself this model of the person he wanted to be.
And to a large extent, that's the person he became.
Yeah, except that I'm not sure.
how deeply they were influenced by Washington and what aspect of him.
If you're going to be a president, and I've written on several presidents, you're aware that Washington is the first and the one who set many of the precedents.
I think that if you were after Washington, though, there are things that you could model yourself on, but they probably wouldn't get you to where you wanted to go in politics.
Because one of the points that I make in the book is that Washington helped create the American republic.
And it had a style of politics, were competitive.
Sometimes they were often partisan and bitter and nasty.
Washington himself would not have thrived in that political realm.
If Washington had had to run for president, if he had had to compete for the presidency, he never would have done it because that was not his style.
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