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To: PieterCasparzen

Washington’s Farewell Address was written over the course of a number of years. He originally did not intend to run for a second term, and started drafting the document in his first term, with the help of James Madison. Later, Alexander Hamilton and others helped revise it.

He never actually delivered it verbally. He simply gave it to the papers to publish.


162 posted on 01/06/2015 9:48:56 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Wow - right ? LOL - that’s even more of a wow to me.

Of course that info perhaps restores our image of Washington - but at the same time smells of some elites somewhere wanting to have essentially a log entry made for the history books.

So the sheeple many generations later could blame themselves.

Wow, thanks for posting EV.


163 posted on 01/06/2015 10:01:14 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: EternalVigilance

bump


166 posted on 01/06/2015 10:26:27 PM PST by GeronL
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