 There is one last land deal done within the formation of this new capital Is this that the the most blatant form of corruption within the kind of the Washington's resume here that you can find because if you can expand on this a little bit. Yeah, sure. So this is this is a a Deal so to speak a sorted deal that I always love Describing to people because when I immediately read it, I thought this couldn't be true and I My my pen hit the table and I had to go searching in other books and in online and low and behold it turns out it is true but Because it's true. It's probably why no one else talks about it is um Basically so the way the famous story goes is Hamilton had presented his bill for the the the bank and Congress passed it. It was dominated by federalists particularly northern federalists And so in Congress passed it and then the bill wound up on Jefferson. I mean not Jefferson. Excuse me Washington's desk He has the president. He has to sign the bill or he could veto it, right? And so he had the ability to veto the bill and to then use the veto power in ways that was not intended This is something that Andrew Jackson later did which I think is a very Good move by him. We can get into that the Jacksonian Perspective on the veto, but Washington said I well before I make a decision. I want to turn to some of my trusted advisors The most important people you know and this is that he turned to Jefferson He turned to Hamilton Hamilton argues for the bank Jefferson argues against the bank Washington was actually leaning towards Jefferson side now ironically even though Jefferson said if Congress passed it You can always just defer to Congress This is part of Jefferson's sort of perspective on a weak executive coming in and this is this is I think It's very unfortunate on Jefferson's part Washington was really thinking about a veto because I think the big thing that worried him the most is a wait a second the capitals supposed to move and Retardering this big financial You know organization and the former capital and that's gonna be a little too north north for my tastes, right? Philadelphia compared to what became Washington DC But one issue was that during this time why Washington he was very obsessed about the capital he wanted the capital to be on the Potomac River, but he also wanted the capital to be outside of the Defining that this little box that basically if the federalist had said okay, Washington You have the ability to place the the site of the nation's capital He wanted to move it outside of the box so he could put it next to all of his land, right just like Very blatant cronies and because this land they're having the capital there is as John Adams sort of later cynically remarked Boosted the value of his property by like a thousand percent. I mean it was a huge windfall So Washington agreed he said look all I will not veto the bank I will sign the bank bill if you basically if you talking to Congress Amends what was known as the residence act to allow me to put the capital closer to my land Okay, because Washington was already having his some of his goons Go out and survey the land and all sorts of stuff and I also just love the historical record pointing this out because apparently like None of them were experienced in survey, you know surveying or any sort of land It was just like one of them was Washington's doctor and another stuff And he's like he's getting his chums to do his work and he's like yeah He's gonna be the site of the capital right right next to all my property and yeah That's basically that was one of the reasons why Washington signed the bill wasn't just Hamilton It was Washington wanted to amend the residence act and the federalists were not going to let him do that come Hell or high water Unless he signed the bank bill so at the end of the day Washington was able to kind of get a little sweetener for the retirement account so to speak though That didn't really turn out to be so you know, he didn't he died you know before the capital was was more or less finished but It helped him a lot and we got this terrible bank that did the all sorts of problems regarding monetary policy Future government intervention and so on it's a fascinating story, and I really think it's one of the most It's one of the great illustrations of cronyism in my book