Farewell address
1farewell address — 1. (caps.) U.S. Hist. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy. 2. a speech delivered by… …
2farewell address — leave taking speech, speech made at a person s departure from an office or position …
3farewell address — 1. (caps.) U.S. Hist. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy. 2. a speech delivered by… …
4George Washington's Farewell Address — George Washington s was written to the people of the United States at the end of his second term as President of the United States. It appeared in many Americans newspapers on September 19, 1796. Technically speaking, it was not an address, but… …
5Andrew Jackson: Farewell Address — ▪ Primary Source In his Farewell Address, written with the help of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and delivered March 4, 1837, Andrew Jackson reviewed the accomplishments of his administration and explained the motivation of some of… …
6Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address — Lincoln s Farewell Address was a speech made by president elect Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois on February 11, 1861 [Library of Congress, manuscript exhibit, Lincoln s Farewell . American Treasuries of the Library of Congress] on his… …
7Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address — ▪ Primary Source A new Eisenhower seemed to emerge during 1959 and 1960, when the President, at last in health, and acting without the advisers Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and… …
8George Washington: Farewell Address — ▪ Primary Source Washington s Farewell Address was never delivered by him. It appeared first by his own arrangement in a newspaper at Philadelphia, then the seat of the national government. Designed in part to remove him from consideration… …
9(the) Farewell Address — the Farewell Address [the Farewell Address] the speech made by President George ↑Washington to the US people when he ↑retired. It was not spoken publicly by Washington but published in the American Daily Advertiser, a ↑Philadelphia newspaper, on… …
10Lee's Farewell Address — General Robert E. Lee issued his Farewell Address to his Army of Northern Virginia on April 10, 1865, the day after he surrendered the army to Ulysses S. Grant. Lee s surrender was instrumental in bringing about the end of the American Civil… …
