Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington ... he issued a ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington ... Major Acts To avoid becoming embroiled in the war between Great Britain and France, Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793.

Donald Trump’s desire to avoid foreign entanglements was not new. In 1987, he paid for advertisements in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe in which he argued that the US ...