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Feb 19, 2024 · NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the nation once again commemorated the first U.S. president on Monday, 292 years after he was born.
Apr 23, 2024 · 'Extraordinary': George Washington's 250-year-old cherries found buried at Mount Vernon. The forgotten cherries were supposed to be served on George Washington's dinner table, but...
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Mar 28, 2024 · CNN — Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George Washington’s younger brother Samuel and his kin. Two of Samuel’s descendants and their...
- George Washington's Farewell Address to The Nation
- Legacy of Washington’s Farewell Address
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Four years before Washington actually left office, when he had considered retiring after his first term, he had asked James Madison to draft a farewell address. In the spring of 1796, Washington found Madison’s draft, made some additions of his own, and turned it over to Hamilton, who ended up drafting his own version. Washington and Hamilton worke...
Washington’s farewell address was rooted in the specific challenges he saw facing the United States at the time, including increasing internal divisions and the ongoing external threat of invasion by stronger nations. But his eloquent message of unity and his warnings against regionalism, partisanship and foreign influence ensured the address would...
Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce t...
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Oct 29, 2009 · George Washington (1732-99) was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797....
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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
