John Irwin
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968 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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In the same room.
Exactly the same.
The room is completely I'm like, was this dude on the spectrum?
Like there was something like completely symmetrical about the room.
Mount Vernon is in complete symmetry.
And so it's just an interesting uh exercise to be like, this is totally preserved.
This is
Mount Vernon is this dude's painting.
And what does it say about his personality?
To me, it says that there was an extreme quest for order and perfection.
and balance and symmetry.
So that would tell me that then a lot of you know, he said, Are these the men with which I am to defend America?
A lot of the chaos of the war would have driven him absolutely nuts.
And so that there was this hyper order at Mount Vernon.
Right.
So you see the two happening that he had to abandon, he had to embrace the tactics of like guerrilla warfare.
And I think that drove him you know, that that was such a grade on him that he wanted this row of roses planted exactly this way at Mount Vernon.
And so you kind of see one informing the other, and he did completely embrace
A new method of winning, and he was able to endure long seasons of of losing and of horrific stakes.
And he would have been, he would have had some sort of a presence that it's an uncommon person that after Valley Forge or after the crossing of the Delaware, before this victory or death kind of like thing to recross the Delaware, it's an uncommon person.
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