Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130218:12:50:00
I'm teaching this class at newt university about washington. i think washington is in some ways the least studied of our great presidents, parr stially because he wasn't much of a writer and his wife martha described his personal correspondence. the world was formed around him from 1775 until 1796. it's easy to forget how much he really was the father of the country and how much we today owe our institutions and our attitudes to washington's nobility and washington's belief in the ability of people to govern themselves. >> we always overlook washington. it's another guy who was hard to penetra...