RUSH: You know, there’s just one other thing here, folks. You probably have been told that we screwed the Indians out of Manhattan Island, that we bought Manhattan from ’em for the equivalent of 24 bucks. That also is not true. “A persuasive case can be made that the city of New York began with a swindle. For generations schoolchildren have been taught that a slick trick was played on unsuspecting Indians by the director of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuit. In 1626, he purchased the island of ‘Manna-hatin’ for sixty gilders worth of trinkets, about $24.
And I guarantee you, you haven’t been taught that.
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