Two days later, Hamilton wrote back, saying that Burr’s charges weren’t specific enough to warrant a confirmation or a denial: “I stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared of any gentleman. … There are so many to deflower He also encouraged his friends and authorized biographers to tell an upbeat, socially acceptable, stiff-upper-lipped version of his life. Planters revived its Cheez Balls in 2018 after pulling them from shelves nearly a decade earlier. A boy they named Philip. Previously closed, The duel itself is as dramatic as can be hoped for with a foregone conclusion. Madison delivered a draft in June 1792, but the document was put aside when Washington agreed to serve another term. It is when you get into more sort of obscure—especially obscure leaders or figures in history—that it does start to really become a problem of, how much weight are you willing to put on this secondary source? What do you eat after a long day of training and catching Pokémon? Hamilton is all the more daring because instead of pairing these characters with a courtly classical music that might fit in better with the setting, it takes its inspiration from black vernacular music, and the cast is comprised of mostly non-white actors, who rap their way through a story that one might expect would be given a much more staid treatment. And it's everywhere. Thompson: Yes. 'Cause it does make a difference. King George These days, you elect a presidential ticket—a president and a vice president together. Is this person citing some lost documentation that was found at the top of a monastery in Outer Uzbekistan and then the monastery burned down so you're relying entirely on them? Aaron Burr opens the show with the line, "How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore/And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished,/In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?" Burr seemed to agree to this. The origins of partisan conflict in America! Washington wants Hamilton as his righthand man, as he has heard about his skills and quick wit. 19. We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts. Am I nonetheless delighted by Groff's interpretation of the character? Burr Sr. died in 1757, and Esther died of smallpox in April 1758, leaving Burr, then 2, and his older sister Sarah, 4, orphans. Thompson: I think so. For transcripts, photos, and even more about Theodore Roosevelt, check out our website at mentalfloss.com/historyvs. Now you call me “amoral,” John Adams? That said, she seems darn confident that she "who she married." Yes, Alexander Hamilton was, in fact, involved in the first sex scandal in American politics. }; Having said goodbye to President George, we now bid adieu to King George, back with his favorite tune and his ever-confused-about-democratic-republics disposition. But on June 2, 1790, the House of Representatives passed Hamilton’s funding bill, minus assumption.