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President Washington and the Senate
February 1, 1917 issue

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When the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson appear in the Senate, it was for the first time since former U.S. President George Washington that any U.S. President in person addressed the Senate alone. But Washington met with the Senate in secret. He set out in 1789 by regarding it as a sort of Privy Council. The chief informant as to what passed between Washington and the Senate in executive session is William Maclay, a Senator from Pennsylvania. Maclay's dislike of aristocrats and dread of the rise of a "court party" in the United States gave him a strong bias against President Washington.

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PRIVY councils; PRESIDENTS -- United States; WILSON, Woodrow, 1856-1924; MACLAY, William; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
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