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WATCH: 8 things you didn't know about George Washington
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3:01Now PlayingDid George Washington actually like people, and would he have been into social media? Judy Woodruff asked historian Lindsay Chervinsky about the things that made George Washington who he was and what America's first president would think of the country today.
Woodruff spoke with Chervinsky about Washington’s achievements, contradictions and enduring influence on the American presidency for her new limited-run podcast,”
In Pursuit of Happiness." Watch more from the episode at the link in bio.
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