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Washington's Farewell Address [1] is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. [2] He wrote it near the end of the second term of his presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia.
The 1796 State of the Union Address was given by George Washington, the first president of the United States, on Wednesday, December 7, 1796. It was given in Congress Hall , Philadelphia. He gave it directly to Congress.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 00:45, 9 October 2012: 3,000 × 2,338 (3.39 MB): Matanya == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=Allyn Cox Oil on Canvas 1973-1974 Great Experiment Hall Cox Corridors In his farewell address at the end of his second term as president, George Washington urged America, "Observe good faith and justic...
In his Farewell Address, a letter that runs just over 6,000 words, George Washington uses the pronouns “you” or “your” 75 times (he used “yourselves” twice).
Washington stood before the 3rd United States Congress on Tuesday, December 3, 1793, and said, "While on the one hand it awakened my gratitude for all those instances of affectionate partiality with which I have been honored by my country, on the other it could not prevent an earnest wish for that retirement from which no private consideration ...
The segment in which Washington sings along as Hamilton reads the text of the Farewell Address was inspired by will.i.am's song "Yes We Can", in which performers sing along to a speech by Barack Obama. [2] In December 2018, Miranda released a remix version of the song featuring Obama as a guest performer reciting the extracts of the farewell ...
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The second 1790 State of the Union Address was a State of the Union address delivered by President George Washington to the 1st United States Congress on December 8, 1790. [ 2 ] This address, longer than Washington's first State of the Union Address earlier in 1790, consisted of 1,401 words.