George Washington used the light of this brass candle stand while laboring over his farewell address in 1796. Richard Strauss / NMAH George Washington was a man of many talents.

Since 1896, the United States Senate has marked Washington's birthday by having a member read the Farewell Address aloud in a legislative session. According to family tradition, President Washington ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until, on a whim ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address was unlike Joe Biden's or Donald Trump's speeches. Religion, for Washington, was not a mere slogan. God was not someone to be remade in the image of his ...

In fact, George Washington’s classic farewell address came perilously close to eschewing grandness and nobility and offering a precursor to Nixon’s approach.

George Washington’s farewell address, a long valedictory letter written largely by Alexander Hamilton, and published in Claypoole’s Daily Advertiser, in September, 1796, was an eloquent ...

George Washington used a farewell letter to announce his decision to step down from office rather than to seek a third term. At that nascent time in American history, Washington’s voluntary ...

Farewell addresses are a tradition started by George Washington. Presidents have historically used them to trumpet their achievements, defend their records, and occasionally take veiled shots at ...

The two most famous and historically significant farewell addresses were issued by chief executives departing after two successful terms: George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower. Mr.

Even George Washington Was a Tyrant; ... In his farewell address, written about leaving the presidency after two terms, ... Her book Lineage: ...

George Washington’s Farewell to the Nation Marked the Birth of American Democracy ... His address was the subject of a 2018 book and is revered as a foundationally important text for the nation.

Letter: George Washington’s farewell address contains his belief that, among other things, political factionalism will cause the destruction of our nation from within.