Really a grans sed sense of his biology. Last time we were looking at his youth. A youth that we say is often times wrapped in romance, in myth, it is hard to get at. It is a period where it is least documented and it is an interesting period. But of course he is most known to americans and perhaps to folks around the world as a great military commander. The general that led the americans through the american war for indense and eight long years of war. And his identity as a warrior is a crucial one. Thinking about who is George Washington, how did he think of himself, as, and why does it matter today. He is still studied regularly in the great military disciplines well as the war college. Washington is a fundamental figure in the establishment of american tradition of leadership in arms. He was the first officer of the American Army. The United States army dates its on birth to his service. And the Continental Congress of him taking over the army that we will talk about a little bit.
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And Andrew Ross Sorkin well start with the markets this morning as the nasdaq logged another record high nasdaq now on an eightday win streak the longest since december last year watching u. S. Equity futures today. There is a pull back the dow is indicated down 265 appointments s p off by 28 and nasdaq down by 50 the nasdaq has seen its best quarter since 1999 and the dow the best since 1987. Check out the s p, for this quarter, s p is up for its best returns it has seen since 1975 looking at the treasury yields this morning youll see the 10year note yielding 0. 7005. That is kind of our comfort zone pretty comfortable if you need to borrow money for sure. The u. S. Is weighing some new tariffs on experts in this case from france, germany, spain and uk related to the 15year old wto fight over aircraft subsidies. Saying the eu is guilty of unfair subsidies to airbus the u. S. Has been accused of unfair subsidies to boeing, negotiations have been at a stalemate. Andrew thank you, joe in
This program originally livestreamed on facebook and youtube and is part of a series of Online Events intended to keep visitors connected with mount vernon during its closure to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Bradburn here we are again. Welcome back. My name is doug bradburn. It is my delight to have these opportunities to talk about George Washington. Last wednesday, we were in our museum. This is our Education Center here at mount vernon. It focuses on the life of George Washington. It gives a grand sense of why he matters. Last time, we were looking at his youth, a youth that is oftentimes enwrapped in romance and myth. Of course, he is most known to americans and perhaps the folks around the world as the great military commander, the general who led the americans through the american war for independence, through eight long years of war. His identity as a warrior is a crucial one. We think about who was George Washington, how did he think of himself and his tim
To the winners go the history. What they end up doing, they are the ones will tell the story. This is the way it usually works. You usually get their perspective. We will see that a lot in this war. You have a lot of the American Revolution stuff. I had you ring read the spring chapter to get the british perspective. The resent a lot of. I it is very chaotic. You are going to walk in with a plan. Yes, you are going to have certain object is. Like we were talking about with the battle of bungler health bunker hill, who won . Im not really sure. We will run into that a lot here. Wars are messy. Battles are challenging. We are not sure how things change up. Everybodys perspective is different depending on where you are at. If you are on the front lines, it will be different than a general sitting on a horse back on the hill. Anything else, other problems . Differences in how battles are fought over time. Sure. You have to remember the time period, folks,. You have to remember the time. Wh