Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Comes back a little while later, he says, the general is now sleeping.
So he realizes, okay, I'm being blown off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And here's one thing you need to know about General Winfield Scott.
Okay.
When the war broke out, he was 75 years old.
He was a veteran of the War of 1812.
His nickname, just so you know that he wasn't an early adopter, was Old Fuss and Feathers.
Oh, my goodness.
So Lowe goes back to the White House.
He says he tells him that, you know, General Scott could not be seen on official business, even at the president's suggestion.
Lincoln looked at me a moment, laughed.
He rose, seized his tall silk hat and bade me come on.
And so they walked out of the White House and they walked over to the general's headquarters.
This time, the general's guard turned and announced the president of the United States.
Everybody suddenly saluting and.
This is Lowe quoting Lincoln.
General, this is my friend, Professor Lowe, who is organizing an aeronautic corps for the army and is to be its chief.
I wish you would facilitate his work in every way and give him all the necessary things to equip his branch of the service on land and on water.
And with that, he leaves.
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