the relationships you had with people. he had with people. first up, tom paine. tom paine at first was a great admirer of washington, actually traveled with the continental army, later became a very scathing critic of washington. he ended up saying washington is treacherous in private friendship and hypocrite in his public life, ended up publishing this very vitriolic open letter to washington. what happened was that tom paine, during the french revolution, was imprisoned and he felt that washington did not make sufficient efforts to free him. paine was an honorary american citizen, and so he thought that washington should have done more. washington was really in a political bind in terms of trying to apply pressure on the french government to release him. so paine goes from one extreme to the other. how important was he to the founding? i think that he was extraordinarily important. i think that at the time that he published common sense there were a lot of peopl
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] next, q &a and live at 7:00, your calls and comments on washington journal. this week on the communicators, the former fcc chairman. they will talk about regulating broadband, broadcasting indecency and their personal experiences at the helm of the fcc to night on c-span 2. hey middle and high school student, get working on your student pam documentary s. there is $50,000 in prizes. this year s theme is washington, d.c. through my lens. for complete rules and information, go to studentcam.org. this week, part 2 on a book on george washington by ron chernow. ron chernow, as we begin our second part discussion of your new book on george washington, i want to ask you about some of the relationships you had with people. first up, tom paine. tom paine at first was a great admirer of washington, actually traveled with the continental army, later became a very