Greatly to the character of america. This is just under an hour. Thank you, jim, and thanks to everybody at mount vernon for all the help they have given me to make this possible, and to bob and Clarice Smith for endowing this terrific lecture series and giving historians a place to come and try to convince you all to read our books. [laughter] um, for the past 25 years or so ive written about nell si cuts dis nelly cuts us the. She was fun and easy to write about. A beautiful, smart, intelligence, feisty young woman. And, of course, ive known about her grandmother for the same period of time, but i never quite got the enthusiasm to think about writing about Martha Washington. I knew what she was like, nellys grandmama. She was 60, 70 years old. She was frumpy and dumpy, and she was small and timid and perhaps not the smartest person around. I took in all the myths everyone took in. And i just couldnt think that it really was worth my while. But in year 2000 i was at the bicentennial a
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