Washington’s Decision to Take on the Presidency

Philander Chase, former editor of The Papers of George Washington, and Rosemarie Zagarri, a professor of history at George Mason University, discuss George Washington’s decision to take on the presidency. This audio clip is an excerpt from an interview that originally aired during the week of July 3, 1998, on With Good Reason, a radio program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and then-hosted by Carolyn Eliott.