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Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono ...
Regardless of your view of the current conflicts, one fact is indisputable.  President Trump’s actions violate our ...
Two centuries after the Marquis de Lafayette bid adieu to America on his famed farewell tour, the French nobleman, ...
Robert E. Lee killed more Americans than Hitler. More than Khruschev. More than King George III, Ho Chi Mihn, or Kim Il Sung.
A 33-mile trip from one protest in Annapolis, Md., to the parade grandstand in front of the White House was like a journey between two different countries.
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 ...
President Biden’s farewell address was a cliché-laden mess, yet the media coverage described it as a “speech for the history books” and a “defense of democracy” that &… ...
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 ...
Biden Delivers a Farewell Address and a Warning to the Nation. ... Mr. Biden spoke for about 17 minutes, keeping with a tradition of farewell speeches that goes back to George Washington.
George Washington’s farewell address, a long valedictory letter written largely by Alexander Hamilton, and published in Claypoole’s Daily Advertiser, in September, 1796, ...