As an author, Fox News anchor Bret Baier seeks to bring historical figures like Patrick Henry and Paul Revere to life. This time around in To Rescue the Constitution, he focuses on George Washington, who – according to Baier – is the only one who could have convinced a rag-tag army to fight the British and believe they could win. Â
“He had this ability to fire them up and he had an ability in imposing this belief, that liberty was worth fighting for,” Baier said. “These guys, some of them didn’t have shoes, they had bloody feet in the middle of Valley Forge in the winter, and yet they overtook the British forces,” Baier said.
But what was it about George Washington, about his character and his personality that was so unique, that was the glue that held everything together?
“They had come up with the Articles of Confederation that loosely knit the Colonies together, but it wasn’t working,” said Baier. “And George Washington was this stoic figure who was well-respected, and in his silence, he found common ground with the different disparate groups to be able to link everybody together for the good of the country,” Baier told us.
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