Electors used their second vote to cast a scattering of votes, many voting for someone besides Adams ( a carefully organized scheme originating with Alexander Hamilton ) less out of opposition to him than to prevent Adams from matching Washington's total.

Commerce Secretary Hodges seems to have been cast in the role of pacemaker for official Washington's economic forecasters.

For example, the Friday after Thanksgiving can be substituted for Washington's birthday.

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.

Some notable moments in the rivalry include Washington's victory over Dallas in the 1982 NFC Championship and the latter's 1989 win over the Redskins for their only victory that season.

On the congressional level, Ellensburg is located in Washington's 4th congressional district and is represented by Republican Doc Hastings, but it is expected to be moved into Washington's 8th congressional district for the 2012 general election and beyond.

In 1911, Washington wrote a letter to him complaining that Carver had not followed orders to plant particular crops at the experiment station This revealed Washington's micro-management of Carver's department, which he had headed for more than 10 years by then.

Virginia delegates believed that Washington's election as the first president was an implicit condition for their acceptance of the new constitution and the new government.

He was humiliated by Washington's criticism for his support of revolutionary France as minister to the nation.

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.

On November 6, 1951, 49 members of the NCS arrived at Washington's Carlton Hotel for breakfast with Harry S. Truman.

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.

While not enshrined in the Constitution, or any other law, Washington's action created the precedent for the privilege.

After a second-down screen pass to Harraway fell incomplete, left tackle Manny Fernandez sacked Kilmer on third down for a loss of eight yards, and Washington's drive ended with no points after kicker Curt Knight's ensuing 32-yard field goal attempt was wide right.

" Washington's Larry Brown rushed for 72 yards on 22 carries and also had five receptions for 26 yards.

Although he only recorded one reception during the regular season, Garrett caught a combined total of 13 receptions for 231 yards and 4 touchdowns in Washington's 3 playoff games.

There are no contemporaneous sources for this fact, and no eyewitness sources to Washington's first inaugural mention the phrase at all — including those that transcribed what he said for his oath.

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.

The City of Philadelphia rented Robert Morris's city house at 190 High Street ( now 524-30 Market Street ) for Washington's presidential residence.

Taft met with and publicly endorsed Booker T. Washington's program for uplifting the African American race, advising them to stay out of politics at the time and emphasize education and entrepreneurship.

* February 26 – The Liberty Bell is cracked while being rung for George Washington's birthday.

George Washington's handwritten notes for the first State of the Union Address, January 8, 1790.: File: Washington-State of the Union. djvu | Full 7 pages.

Apocryphal stories about Washington's childhood include a claim that he skipped a silver dollar across the Potomac River at Mount Vernon.

Vernon, George Washington's Home on the Potomac River lie just to the North.

In 1726, at the urging of her brother Augustine Washington ( George Washington's father ), Mildred sold him the Potomac River estate.

The construction of this operational distillery cost $ 2. 1 M and is located on the exact site of Washington's original distillery, a short distance from his mansion on the Potomac River.

The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West, Simon and Schuster, 2004.

In the last year of his life, he became one of George Washington's partners in the Patowmack Company, a business enterprise intended to link the middle states with the expanding West by means of a Potomac River canal.

The British also sent a fleet up the Potomac to cut off Washington's water access and threaten the prosperous ports of Alexandria, just downstream of Washington, and Georgetown, just upstream.

Thus, George Washington's lobbying for interstate cooperation on the Potomac helped prepare the way for the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Gano served with Clinton's army, not with Washington's, that the location is sometimes given as Valley Forge and sometimes as the Potomac, that there is no documentation of Gano ever being at Valley Forge, that there is nothing in Gano's own correspondence or his biography to suggest that the event took place, and that none of the 42 reputed witnesses ever documented the event.

Completed in 1923, it is Washington's oldest surviving bridge across the Potomac River.

The park contains the East Potomac Golf Club and East Potomac Swimming Pool, along with a number of Washington's famous cherry trees ; these trees extend well into Hains Point.

The Mount Vernon Trail, a part of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, is a paved hiker / biker path in Northern Virginia that travels between Rosslyn and George Washington's home at Mount Vernon.

There are plans to remove the Condit Dam on Washington's White Salmon River, and the Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork in Montana.

Washington's map of the Ohio River and surrounding region containing notes on French intentions, 1753 or 1754.

While General George Washington's defeat on the battlefield may have cast early doubts on his abilities as a military tactician and leader, he did keep the Continental Army intact with an overnight tactical retreat, across the East River.

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

* The ridgeline running east-west along Washington's northern boundary, between Lake Waramaug and the Shepaug River, forms the edge of the northern portion of the Highlands of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Le Comte de Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, marched through and camped in the town during the American Revolutionary War on his way from landing at Narragansett Bay to join George Washington's forces on the Hudson River in 1781.

In November 1776, a farmer from Closter witnessed British troops landing at Closter Dock on the Hudson River and rode to Fort Lee to warn Continental Army General Nathaniel Greene, allowing the Americans the opportunity to retreat to Hackensack at New Bridge Landing ahead of the British along with the remnants of General George Washington's troops after the failed Battle of Fort Washington.

Kingwood Township is famous for Captain Daniel Bray, the local captain who rounded up the boats for George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.

According to a plaque at Samuel S. Lewis State Park, which overlooks Wrightsville and the Susquehanna River, Wrightsville was George Washington's first choice as location of the capital of the United States.

Washington's crossing of the Delaware River | Washington's surprise crossing of the Delaware River in December 1776 was a major comeback after the loss of New York City ; his army defeated the British in two battles and recaptured New Jersey.

* In Herr's Island, a island on the western bank of the Allegheny River, a former rail stop for livestock and meatpacking was transformed into Washington's Landing, a waterfront center for commerce, manufacturing, recreation and upscale housing

The success of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by George Washington's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Monongahela River.

Before construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1916, Lake Washington's outlet was the Black River, which joined the Duwamish River and emptied into Elliott Bay.

The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey.

Springfield sits at a natural crossroads, at the confluence of four rivers: to the west, the 78. 1 mile Westfield River, ( the Connecticut River's longest tributary river in Massachusetts ;) in the middle, the 418. 0 mile Connecticut River, then known as " The Great River ;" and to the east two smaller rivers: the 18. 0 mile Chicopee River, which featured the fast moving and the Connecticut River's largest water basin ; and also, the Mill River, which would become very important approximately 150 years later after George Washington's foundation of the U. S. Armory at Springfield.