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America at 250, Episode 5: George Washington, "The Indispensable Man" with Dr. Virginia Arbery

The After Dinner Scholar

General Washington served as Commander-in-Chief from July 15, 1775 to the end of the War for Independence and was relieved on December 23, 1783—eight and a half years. After that he served eight years as our first president—with all the attending problems of a new nation—from 1789 to 1797. And he was, as historian James Thomas Flexner titled his biography: Washington: The Indispensable Man. There are few Americans who admire Washington as much as Wyoming Catholic College professor Dr. Virginia Arbery, our guest this week.