Benjamin Franklin Brache
"[he attacked] the first president with scurrilities whose falsity and personal nature remain unsurpassed."
-- George C. Kohn, Encyclopedia of American Scandal, p.16
"One of the most vicious slanderers was Benjamin Franklin Bache young grandson of Benjamin Franklin, and publisher of Philadelphia's General Advertiser , (later The Aurora) , who was determined by hook or by crook to destroy George Washington's reputation."
-- George C. Kohn, Encyclopedia of American Scandal, p.16
"His calumnies are exceeded only by his Impudence [sic], and both stand unrivalled."
--George Washington
-- George C. Kohn, Encyclopedia of American Scandal, p.17
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