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urbanmilwaukee
April 16, 2018
Any original 1868 resident over the age of 71 would have been born in the administration of George Washington. Today, Baby Boomers born in the Eisenhower administration are eligible to live in the senior housing. In addition to the current residents, a show of hands indicated that dozens of the attendeesÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 25, 2018
The tree is rumored to have been here before Ohio became a state and may have even been a young sapling during the administration of George Washington. One can only wonder how many afternoon picnics or clandestine affairs were conducted under the towering branches of Moses Cleaveland.
Miami Herald (blog)
March 18, 2018
Americans have always been interested in political sex scandals, dating back to the administration of George Washington, who had a lengthy and well-publicized affair with Elizabeth Taylor. I will admit that in recent years, our standards have gotten lower, as evidenced by the decision last week by The NewÃâà...
Salon
January 19, 2018
As a legal issue, presidential claims of refusing to provide certain information on grounds of executive privilege has existed since the administration of George Washington. In the Russian interference matter under investigation by Mueller and three congressional committees, whether Bannon and otherÃâà...
The Hill
September 21, 2017
He has the ability to do so under executive privilege, which is not mentioned in the Constitution, though it has been raised in some form since the administration of George Washington. The landmark case articulating the privilege was United States v. Nixon in 1974 where the Supreme Court ruled 8-0Ãâà...
BillMoyers.com
July 27, 2017
When the Bill of Rights was first passed, remember, in the first administration of [George] Washington? Great thing. Bill of Rights passed! Big ballyhoo. At the same time [Alexander] Hamilton's economic program was passed. Nice, quiet, money to the rich — I'm simplifying it a little, but not too much.
Journal of the San Juan Islands
June 4, 2017
In 1792, Vancouver sailed the ocean blue – becoming the first non-native to discover the stunning inland sea of Puget Sound. On June 4, Britain's Captain George Vancouver sailed his ships Discovery and Chatham into Saratoga Passage near Mukilteo, where he took possession of the Pacific NorthwestÃâà...
OregonLive.com
May 26, 2017
The United States had a War Department for 158 years, starting with the administration of George Washington, before it became part of a less belligerent sounding Defense Department in 1949. Words matter, nevertheless, especially when certain people in Washington, D.C., resemble a character from AliceÃâà...
PolitiFact
March 25, 2017
Articles Ãâ÷ People Ãâ÷ Elections Ãâ÷ Subjects Ãâ÷ False Ãâ÷ Blunt. "Somebody observed this week that you have to go back to the very founding of the government to the first administration of George Washington to find a time when it's taken longer to put a Cabinet in place." — Roy Blunt on Wednesday, February 8th,Ãâà...
Huffington Post
February 4, 2016
The treaty, negotiated during the presidential administration of George Washington, was ratified while his hand-picked successor John Adams held the presidency. It offers a clear and direct statement on the question. Even more telling for our contemporary fears and debates, the statement was offered inÃâà...
Huffington Post
January 28, 2015
When the fledging Administration of George Washington levied — democratically - a tax on whiskey, the Scotch-Irish of the frontier rose in rebellion. Washington suppressed them. The Constitution survived. That spirit— representation as a means of evading taxation — dominates “Tea Party” conservatism.
NPI's Cascadia Advocate (blog)
December 31, 1999
Others had serious concerns about how Pompeo would perform as Secretary of State, which is one of the country's oldest and most important positions, dating back to the administration of George Washington. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts was particularly distressed with Pompeo's responseÃâà...
