Ken Burns
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He's a hero at the Battle of Saratoga.
He's been painted out of most of the paintings because he became Benedict Arnold.
But isn't it nice to know that he's that great a general before he becomes Benedict Arnold?
They say it was a mixture of... It's like an Arnold Palmer.
It's a mixture of iced tea and lemonade.
And I'm... No, it's what happens when you atrophy this interest in American history or you think that it can be so simplified that you don't have to do anything.
I mean I love it and I love the fact that we can bring back these things for people and they can experience – and there isn't a person in the country that's listening to me now or that we're going 35 different cities all around the country talking about this.
the eighth grader taking American history, the 11th grader making news.
It's for anybody who cares about where their country came from and is willing to say, I probably don't know the full dimensions of