- Notes from Uncancelled History with Douglas Murray | EP. 06 George Washington
- Was a slave owner
- Wanted to be part of the British Empire but Britain wasn’t very accommodating to the colonists
- The colonists are governing themselves, and start to think of themselves as separate from Britain. Thinking themselves of Americans
- All of sudden, Britain wants to regulate America after not caring.
- Wanted to force upon America their own ideas
- A very loose idea of an “Army” of the colonies, disorganization, ordinary people, yet fighting for purpose
- Washington was a good leader, talked to the soldiers individually
- Reserved
- Demanding to officers
- No college education
- Serious man, because he knew he had to be
- Colonies need to form a national identity
- Everyone reading Locke and others about making a republic
- Would prefer to live peace of life but knows he knows he’s important to the experiment of America and becomes First President.
- Precedent of “Mr. President”
- Precedent of not creating a monarchy
- Instinctive Republican thinking, yet he’s not well read of philosophers
From the notebook