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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Steve Rushin

He Had A Big Butt, No Lie: George Washington’s Athleticism Helped Build Our Sports-Mad Nation

George Washington had a big dumper.

“His heroic figure was only somewhat disfigured by a huge rump,” in the words of the novelist Gore Vidal, who saw in the Founding Father an athlete who even sat like an All-Star catcher, easing himself onto a clubhouse recliner. “Slowly, carefully, painfully,” Vidal wrote in his 1973 historical novel Burr, “Washington arranged himself in a throne-like chair, favouring one huge buttock.”

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