 Eventually, they might keep playing past their prime. You start noticing that the younger generations of fans only know that athlete in their later years, and they never saw them when they were at their best. Well, in the same way in these portraits, we are seeing George Washington past his prime. And it's a shame, too, because that wasn't the man many of his contemporaries knew. Now, the rest of this episode will explore the real George Washington. And you might be surprised to find out that he was less the man on the dollar bill