H.W. Brands
speaker
313 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 May
H.W. Brands’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Washington hardly had any dealings at all with banks.
When he needed money, he borrowed money from his agents in London.
And he worked through that.
But through the banks, he was willing to take Hamilton's word on a lot of this stuff.
Washington was not a student of economics, a student of financial institutions.
But he did have...
great faith in Hamilton, in Hamilton's intellect.
I don't know how much he trusted Hamilton's judgment or even Hamilton's character, but he found that Hamilton was a very useful subordinate, a useful lieutenant, because he was smart, he was a quick study, he would do things fast, and he'd get all sorts of things done.
nearly all of them thought that Washington stood morally head and shoulders above them and above everybody else.
Benjamin Franklin was an exception to this.
And again, here's something worth noting.
Washington was a generation older than nearly all the other founders.
Actually, he was a generation younger than Washington.
Benjamin Franklin.
But those two, they were very much older.
And this is one of the reasons he is seen as this father figure.
But he's also seen as somebody who set aside personal interest to take up command of the Continental Army.
He agreed to serve without pay.
And in fact, he lost a lot of money as a result of the American Revolution.
He lost a lot of money from the time he spent as president of the United States.
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