Take away George Washington's statue.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

Foreign policy themes were expressed considerably in George Washington's farewell address ; these included among other things, observing good faith and justice towards all nations and cultivating peace and harmony with all, excluding both " inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others ", " steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ", and advocating trade with all nations.

* 1799 – Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee declares him as " first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

* George Washington's birthday: February 22, United States ( often coincides with President's Day, see above )

* Washington's Birthday, celebrate George Washington's birthday on February 11, 1732.

Later the Washingtons raised two of Mrs. Washington's grandchildren, Eleanor Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis.

Responsible for recruiting and arming soldiers, Hanson proved to be an excellent organizer, and Frederick County sent the first southern troops to join George Washington's army.

* Lillback, Peter A .. George Washington's Sacred Fire. Providence Forum Press, 2006.

With the release of the 2008 book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by George W. Bush's press secretary Scott McClellan, there are some who contend that this is evidence of Mark Halperin being correct instead of biased.

* 1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

Prospects for the next convention appeared bleak until James Madison and Edmund Randolph succeeded in securing George Washington's attendance as a delegate to Philadelphia.

This new design was issued on the bicentennial of George Washington's birth.

By Executive Order of the President of the United States, the Purple Heart was revived on the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth, out of respect to his memory and military achievements, by War Department General Orders No. 3, dated February 22, 1932.

* 1796 – George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

Running back George Rogers was Washington's leading rusher with 613 yards.

He was commissioned as a major, then became George Washington's aide-de-camp and, on August 14, 1775 Washington appointed him to become the army's first Quartermaster General under order of Congress.

The party was formed by Alexander Hamilton, who, during George Washington's first term, built a network of supporters, largely urban bankers and businessmen, to support his fiscal policies.

Stories about historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, George Washington's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebellum period, have also created potent myths of state history, and have served as rationales for Virginia's ideology.

Adams's political views and his active role in the Senate made him a natural target for critics of George Washington's administration.

Although it was not completed until some years after the presidency of George Washington, it is also speculated that the name of the traditional residence of the President of the United States may have derived from Martha Custis Washington's home, White House Plantation in Virginia, where the nation's first President had courted the First Lady in the mid-18th century.

* January 1 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.

* 1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his " Farewell Address to the Army ".

* September 17 – U. S. President George Washington issues his Farewell Address, which warns against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.

* November 2 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his Farewell Address to the Army.

Historians point to George Washington's decision not to seek a third term as evidence that the founders saw a two-term limit as a bulwark against a monarchy, although his Farewell Address suggests that he was not seeking re-election because of his age.

In 1832 a young 22-year-old George W. Harkins | Harkins wrote the Farewell Letter to the American People.

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* George Moore ( novelist ) publishes the final of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell ( first in 1911 ).

* George Moore ( novelist ) publishes the first of his three-volume Hail and Farewell ( last in 1914 ).

* The Falcon Takes Over ( 1942 ) — ( adaptation of Farewell My Lovely with detective " The Falcon " substituting for Marlowe ) George Sanders as The Falcon.

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* George Moore: Hail and Farewell ( gossipy memoir of the early days of the Abbey Theatre )

In 1942, The Falcon Takes Over, a 65 minute film, the third in the Falcon series of films revolving around Michael Arlen's gentleman sleuth Gay Lawrence ( played by George Sanders ), used the plot of Farewell, My Lovely, with Lawrence substituted for Marlowe.

George was introduced in the episode " Henry's Farewell ," and Hemsley and Stewart share their only scene together in its final minutes.

Lowell repeatedly argued that George Washington ’ s Farewell Address and its stricture against entangling alliances held no relevance for the present.

A highly-visible and distinctive Dublin character during his lifetime, Gogarty appears in a number of memoirs penned by his contemporaries, notably George Moore's Hail and Farewell, where he goes both by his own name and by the pseudonym " Conan.

In his famous and influential Farewell Address, George Washington warned that the United States should " steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ".

Thurmond later read from the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and George Washington's Farewell Address.

George Washington, in his 1796 Farewell Address, described the influence of xenophilia in politics, which he saw as negative:

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" They did not oppose expansion on commercial, constitutional, religious, or humanitarian grounds ; rather they believed that annexation and administration of backward tropical areas would mean the abandonment of American ideals of self-government and non-interventionism — ideals expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence, George Washington's Farewell Address and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

* Publication of the first of George Moore's three-volume Hail and Farewell.

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A Broadside ( printing ) | broadside of George Washington's Farewell Address, from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress