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"The Requisite Preparations Cannot Probably by Made Before Thursday Next"
Two committees, one from the House and one from the Senate, worked together to plan George Washington's inauguration at Federal Hall in New York, the first ever inauguration of a president of the United States.
They had very little time. Congress had been in existence for only a few weeks when the committees submitted these reports on Saturday, April 25, just six weeks before Thursday, April 30, when the inauguration was to take place.
Reports of the Committees of Congress Respecting the Time of the Inauguration of the President, in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, April 25, 1789. |