At noon on this date in 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as our first president under the new U.S. Constitution: "I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years..." George Washington, First Inaugural Address, New York, April 30, 1789; Fitzpatrick 30:291
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