Elon’s third party, if it gained any traction, might ensure Democratic Party majorities as far into the future as foreseeable ...

Washington dutifully spent the next four years on a precedent-setting bender. Satisfied, he tasked James Madison, his close adviser and later the fourth president, with drafting a farewell address.

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.

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 ...

President Dwight Eisenhower makes his farewell address to the nation in a television-radio broadcast three days before the end of his term in Washington, on Jan. 17, 1961. (AP) By Michael Peregrine ...

Mr. Biden spoke for about 17 minutes, keeping with a tradition of farewell speeches that goes back to George Washington.

The Senate has read Washington's farewell address every year on his birthday since 1893. Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.

The ideas in Washington’s farewell still help to guide lawmakers and ordinary citizens alike. His address was the subject of a 2018 book and is revered as a foundationally important text for the ...

Washington’s Farewell Address isn’t just some dusty warning from an old guy back then. It is a critically relevant diagnostic tool for reflecting on what is at stake in this election.

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