John Berlau, historian and author of the book “George Washington, Entrepreneur” says that American founding father and first U.S. President George Washington was an inspiration for his moral integrity and entrepreneurial spirit. “George Washington was very much a pioneering entrepreneur,” Berlau said on NTD’s “Capitol Report” during a recent interview. Berlau said Washington engaged his “creative, entrepreneurial mind” starting out as a freelance surveyor, then becoming a pioneer in crop rotation, flour milling, breeding mules, and after his presidency, opening a whiskey distillery. “Washington encouraged our culture of both entrepreneurship and innovation and invention,” said Berlau. “He made some inventions himself, like different types of plows, but he also, both as president and private citizen, encouraged the early American inventors such as James Rumsey.” In a 1786 letter encouraging Rumsey to complete his steamboat, Washington wrote, “If you have no cause to change your opinion respecting your mechanical Boat, & reasons unknown to me …