A vertical video featuring a bronze statue of Robert Morris standing on a stone pedestal in an outdoor urban plaza. The statue depicts a man in 18th-century attire holding a cane. The camera pans slig... More about Independence Hall →
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Finance the American Revolution not entirely out of his own curses they would have crawled it, although he is the richest man in the entire country. He comes from England, lives here in Philadelphia. In fact, we were in his house. Remember I took you over to the President's house at the beginning of the tour that was his house, which he gave up so that Washington didn't have to live in a boarding house. I was president of the United States, and he says, I got other houses you can have it, but Washington always paid for everything even during the war like if he had to kick somebody out of their house to be the headquarters like Valley Ford there twenty miles over there, he paid the people he was not going to be like the Brits and just kick