John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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And it's said that he said, So help me God and kiss the Bible.
But with that many people with no PA, who knows?
Because he wasn't an orator.
But what I can tell you is that when you read his first inaugural address and his other speech.
There was absolutely a recognition of what he would call the architect of the universe, the divine hand, being inextricably linked to his rise and to the nation itself.
And that's kind of a part of our ethos.
The American Revolution being kind of a collision of faith and thought and purpose and reason, the Great Awakening preceding the American Revolution and the Rights of Man, and kind of the age of reason.
Revolution.
coming out of Europe, those things collided in the American Revolution.
And so I I think it's absolutely
in the context of his actual speech, it makes total sense that he would say, uh, so help me God, because what we dramatized, spoiler alert in our film, was that when he really humbled himself under Braddock and and really defined himself as the leader he would someday be, he later learned, it was fourteen years later, we moved it up into the context of the film.
that um there's a Native American chief and his men were were firing right at him and they said could not hit him and in fact one of the bullets went through his hat.
Their claim was that there was some kind of um the creator was kind of protecting him in some way, some divine hand of providence.
That really stuck with him and then I think
the whether it's the fog on the crossing of the Delaware, there's a bunch of stuff in his life where he was like, I don't understand how this happened.
I don't see any other explanation for this happening, and I have to recognize some sort of a divine
hand in the story of of his life and in the story of the nation itself, that was very what he says in his first inaugural heavy on his mind, you know?
And so I think within that context, him saying, so help me God would have been absolutely in character, although no one could hear.
So who knows?
Who knows?
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