country's very first president. it goes way deeper than that stuff there are man scripts and letters from his civil and his military life and personal and private diaries. among the letters, one of only three to survive the centuries between washington and his wife martha. before he died, the first president of the u.s. suggested that people might find some of records interesting and he hoped there might be a library and there you see it there, harris. it is really striking, some tremendous stuff there. >> so, carl, how is this different from the presidential library's modern president set up when they leave office? >> yeah, that started with franklin roosevelt. all the earlier ones didn't have them. this is research library so by appoint want. scholarship is what it is supposed to be about. today only most people know the legends about washington as a general. first president and folks think they are clever when they remember that he didn't really chop down the cherry tree and admit it and say he couldn't tell a lie. he was landowner in the region started with the equivalent of a sixth grade